Ola Rotimi
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Ola Rotimi (April 13, 1938 - August 18, 2000) is a Nigerian dramatist and writer. He was born to a Yoruba father and Ijaw mother in Sapele. He studied in the US, at Boston University and Yale University, and several of his works put a Nigerian stance on Western literature. In The Gods Are Not To Blame he adapted Sophocles's Oedipus to a pre-colonial Yoruba context. He also did scathing political satires and drew much controversy. In the 1980s he had success with If and Hopes of the Living Dead.
Ola Rotimi also wrote a famous literature book called "Our Husband has gone mad again"
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