The Trials of Brother. Jero by Wole Sovinka is not an adaptation. Other texts: Oraelo. Women of Ow'u and The Gods Are Not To Blame are adaptations. Adaptation is the process of writing or developing a literary text from an already existing one. It can also be a film developed from a literary text. Some Alrican literary texts were developed from already existing ones based on cultural similarities. For instance. Orwelo by Ahmed Yerima was adapted from or developed from William Shakespeare's Othello based on cultural similarities. Also Homen of Owa by Femi Osofisan and The Gods sie Not To Blame by Ola Rotimi were adapted from Euripedes` Women of Troy and Sophocles'King Oedipus respectively.