SARAH LADIPO MANYIKA / In Dependence
It is the early-sixties when a young Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. In this city of dreaming spires, he finds himself among a generation high on visions of a new and better world.
The whole world seems ablaze with change: independence at home, the Civil Rights movement and the first tremors of cultural and sexual revolutions. It is then that Tayo meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of an ex-colonial officer. In Dependence is Tayo and Vanessa's story of a brave but bittersweet love affair, a tale of two people struggling to find themselves and each other, and a story of passion and idealism, courage and betrayal, and the universal desire to fall, madly, deeply, in love.
Sarah Manyika grew up in Nigeria in Lagos and Jos, and then Nairobi, Kenya. She won ACER’s Young Black British Writers Award in 1993 and the Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca writing scholarship in 1999 for work in advanced African Studies. She holds a Ph.D from the University of California, Berkley in Education with a focus on Africa and the African Diaspora. She currently lectures at San Francisco State University.
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