Niyeal:
The God are not blame. Very interesting book

isn't it a ripoff of some Oedipus story?

Teco2:



Oga, that's not plagiarism but an adaptation...same way Ahmed Yarima adapted William Shakespeare's Othello in his Oteolo...

What adaptation are you talking about? Why didn't he put it in the title of his book or in the foreward that it's an adaptation? Lol

Have always love that name and his books, all my friends with the name Ola, I call them ola Rotimi.

Buliwyf:
Oh it's this guy known only for blatantly plagiarizing the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles? Happy birthday and RIP to him.

It's funny Nigerians don't know that The Gods Are Not To Blame was copied. LMAO

What do you mean by "plagiarized" Did you even check the meaning of plagiarism before you wrote this nonsense or you were pushed and tempted by the desire to sound intelligent.

That is what they called adaptation. And "the gods are not to blame" is one of the most ingenuous creative pieces

"The gods are not blame" has little or no bearing with Sophocle's "Oedipus Rex". The only mingling connection is the story and Sophocles himself is not the originator of the story of Oedipus. It's derived from Greek mythology. "The God's are not blame" is a wonderful piece. And the man has proven his worth, his artistic brilliance not just with "the gods are not to blame" but with many other of his plays. There has never been a time I read any Ola Rotimi's play and regretted reading it. In fact, I enjoy reading Rotimi' than reading any other African dramatist. Works like "Kunrunmi", "Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again", "Hope of the Living Dead" and many others are wonderful plays to read.

It is not only Ola Rotimi' that adapted ancient plays. Wole Soyinka, Femi Osofisan (Tegonni- African Antigonne) have adapted plays. So adapting a work to another work doesn't in anyway erode the originality of the adapted work or makes the adapted work a copy of the original work.

He was my best playwright. May his soul continue to rest in perfect peace.

Happy posthumous birthday, play-deity!

Mine too.
The reason why it irks me seeing one idiot said he plagiarized

BennyDon:
He was my best playwright. May his soul continue to rest in perfect peace.

Happy posthumous birthday, play-deity!

Mine too.
The reason why it irks me seeing one idiot said he
plagiarized

I remember in my secondary school days then my friend and I had to memorize all the proverbs in the book (The Gods are not to blame). Funny enough I still remember most of the proverbs and I use them (or any proverb like these) when occasion demands for it or when I want to put indomie generation in their place.


When the rain falls on the leopard, does it wash off its spots?

When the chameleon brings forth a child, is not that child expected to dance?

Joy has a slender body that breaks too soon

When the frog in front falls in pit, others behind take caution.


It is not changing into the lion that is hard, it is getting the tail of a lion


My favourite
Until the rotten tooth is pulled out, the mouth must chew with caution.


I am not certain if this one is from the book

The firewood of this world is for only those who can take heart that is why not all can gather it.

Indomie shindren will not know this baba

Bundle me up, you'll have to kill me first.
What are these before my eyes?
What are these before my eyes?
Are they mountains are are they trees?
..............
I actually enjoyed literature classes then, maybe cuz i wanted to become an actress. Life happens.

Niyeal:
The God are not blame.
Very interesting book

I remember that book back then very interesting book.

Una just dey quote Se.un and Mynd.44 up and down. Can their eyes be on all threads at a time?! Use the report button, please. But I still don't understand this mod concept? Is there a mod for FP threads; because this is a literature thread and the literature mods are ijeb.abe and n.ex. So, is it them that should be called OR the former. But Se.un is a mod of NL ad section.... I give up!

'The butterfly thinks himself a bird'.

One of my favorite quotes from his play.


Rest on Great one.

noleflendum:
Great Man
Better writer than Chinua Achebe
Rest on

I agree with you.

Niyeal:
The God are not blame.
Very interesting book

A classmate of mine in the secondary school told the Uncle and the wife, his sister that he wanted to buy a book: The God are not blame. They both told him that there was no book like that. They asked his friend standing by, a classmate too, do you have a book like that? That one said NO in order to be on their side. Anyway their point was the rule of grammar was not obeyed.

post=88385851:
He was a good man.

He lived a good life.

From all of us @[color=#006600][/color] : Happy 82nd posthumous Birthday Ola Rotimi.

You will always remain in a special place in our hearts.

Say hello to Chinua Achebe over there sire.


Papa Achebe's would have turned 90 years last month (March 21st).

Great men of our darling nation.

everybody was a good man to somebody.

Buliwyf:
Oh it's this guy known only for blatantly plagiarizing the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles? Happy birthday and RIP to him.

It's funny Nigerians don't know that The Gods Are Not To Blame was copied. LMAO

The only change in the storyline was the setting and names of the characters.

Buliwyf:
Oh it's this guy known only for blatantly plagiarizing the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles? Happy birthday and RIP to him.

It's funny Nigerians don't know that The Gods Are Not To Blame was copied. LMAO

if you only you have read the original work you wouldn't be saying what you are saying

Buliwyf:


What adaptation are you talking about? Why didn't he put it in the title of his book or in the foreward that it's an adaptation? Lol

I agree with you

wewe1:
I remember in my secondary school days then my friend and I had to memorize all the proverbs in the book (The Gods are not to blame). Funny enough I still remember most of the proverbs and I use them (or any proverb like these) when occasion demands for it or when I want to put indomie generation in their place.


When the rain falls on the leopard, does it wash off its spots?

When the chameleon brings forth a child, is not that child expected to dance?

Joy has a slender body that breaks too soon

When the frog in front falls in pit, others behind take caution.


It is not changing into the lion that is hard, it is getting the tail of a lion


My favourite
Until the rotten tooth is pulled out, the mouth must chew with caution.


I am not certain if this one is from the book

The firewood of this world is for only those who can take heart that is why not all can gather it.

you try o.

The last one is not from the book though. Proverb about firewood talks about the ant that gathers it must be ready to carry the load or something like dat. Towards the end where he was to punish himself

Great playwright! May Olódùmarè rest your soul in peace.
The Gods are not to Blame

Our Husband has Gone Mad Again (This satire is humorous �)

Wickedfacts:
University of Ife had Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Muraina Oyelami, Lamidi Fakeye and Peter Fatomilola in the early 90s. Imagine how much creativity resided in that Faculty back then.

Majority of the ones currently in that Faculty want to get Nobel Laureate in sleeping with female students. Especially those in English Department. Only few have sense.

Soyinka is U.I

A very good author

Maliqcious:
Soyinka is U.I

Did Soyinka lecture in UI?

If crocodile can eat its own eggs what can it not do to the eggs of a lizard.Rest on the master story teller.

Rest on, the great one.

See how everybody is mentioning the God's are not to Blame as if that's the only book he wrote

And he didn't copy the Oedipus story, he gave it an African adaptation

He was a prolific writer.

Rest on Gladstone Ola Rotimi