In Dependence

Summary

In the early sixties, Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarshipat Oxford University. There he discovers a whole generation high on visions of a newand better world. He meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of a formercolonial officer. Their story, which spans four decades, is a bittersweet tale of a bravebut doomed affair and the universal desire to fall truly, madly and deeply in love.This is a lyrical and moving story of unfulfilled love fraught with the weight ofhistory, race and geography and intertwined with questions of belonging, ageing, faithand family secrets. In Dependence explores the complexities of contemporary Africa, itsdiaspora and its interdependence with the rest of the world.