Ẹṣin Atirojà

The book which is in Yoruba language is by Olanipekun Esan who was a professor of linguistics at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. It was a translation of the Trojan Wars into Yoruba. Olanipekun seminal works included the translation of other Greek classics, like Oedipus Rex - Sophocles - Teledalase (God's will be done) was done at a time when Yourba Language studies, literature, drama and poetry was at its ascendancy world-wide and the works were a fitting successor to the Yoruba classics by D.O. Fagunwa. Unfortunately, that ascendancy has lost momentum after being sucked into the cultural conundrum of the emerging hazy and non-definitive Nigeria Culture of the last three decades. It is also important to add that the Yoruba title "Esin Atiroja" literarily translates to "the horse that fights on stilts" capturing the image of the Trojan horse with the height and space to accommodate soldiers.