They hold dear their beliefs in Yoruba deities and act in accordance with these beliefs. They are also warriors when situation demands. The people of Kutuje are predominantly farmers and hunters. Snatches of conversation and the use of flashback technique also intimate the readers of prominent Yoruba towns like Oyo, Ife, Ilorin, Ede, Ibadan, Oshogbo and Iwo. Most of the actions in the play take place within the precinct of Kutuje Palace. The setting of the play is Kutuje Land during the pre-colonial period. The play covertly extols the virtues of patience, good leadership, and communal responsibility while denouncing the evils of anger and distrust. His restlessness and hot temper, apparently his flaws, bring him closer to the fulfillment of his destiny even when he thinks he has escaped his ill fate. Whichever way he is taken or runs, he gets closer and closer to fulfilling his ill-fated destiny of killing his father to marry his mother. The Gods are not to Blame shows how the wheels of fate and the weaknesses of a man conspire against him and set him on a cyclic path of bad fate.
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