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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. It is the story of two people struggling to find themselves and each other – a story of passion and idealism, courage and betrayal, and the universal desire to fall, madly, deeply, in love.
268 printed pages
Original publication
2010
Publication year
2010
Publisher
Legend Press
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  • rihabs418shared an impression8 months ago
    👍Worth reading

    The best book I've read. Read it 2018. Bo matter how many times I read it, it still hits

Quotes

  • Maria Fernanda Ramirez Hernandezhas quotedlast year
    o serve younger British men who knew so little yet felt naturally entitled to power.
  • fortunesampson8has quoted2 months ago
    Supposedly good-looking, from an aristocratic family, captain of boats at Balliol, and a million other marvellous things, none of which meant much to her. Certainly not the aristocratic bit, but she had to keep going because it was late and too dark to walk back to college alone, even though she still felt tempted to try.

    When Vanessa and her friends arrived at the party, someone was thoughtful enough to lend her a towel. She
  • fortunesampson8has quoted2 months ago
    looking, from an aristocratic family, captain of boats at Balliol, and a million other marvellous things, none of which meant much to her. Certainly not the aristocratic bit, but she had to keep going because it was late and too dark to walk back to college alone, even though she still felt tempted to try.

    When Vanessa and her friends arrived at the party, someone was thoughtful enough to lend her a towel. She

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