![]() ![]() ![]() Because of this, he ran away to far away land where he bought a farm at the place where the three foot paths meet and he worked hard to own a good living. The foster parents Ogundele and Mobike who had no child happily took the child as their own and only a few people knew that the child was adopted but did not know the true parents of the child as Gbonka had left the two men in the bush without saying much.Īs an adult, Odewale’s uncle told him the truth of his destiny but failed to mention that his real parents were not known. However, unable to balance understanding of his assignment coupled with love for the new born baby, the messenger Gbonka who was sent alone to dispose of the child in a forest found a foster father for the child and went back to his place of service. At birth when his Parents took him to the village diviner the Ogun priest to tell his future, they met sadness amidst their joyful thronging of drums and dancing their first son was destined to kill his father and marry his mother and the only way to avert this was to kill him. The book the gods are not to blame is the dramatic tale of a man Odewale born with a destiny he tried to run away from. ![]()
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