In the early sixties, Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. There he discovers a whole generation high on visions of a new and better world. He meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of a former colonial officer. Their story, which spans four decades, is a bittersweet tale of a brave but doomed affair and the universal desire to fall truly, madly and deeply in love.
A lyrical and moving story of unfulfilled love fraught with the weight of history, race and geography and intertwined with questions of belonging, aging, faith and family secrets. In Dependence explores the complexities of contemporary Africa, its Diaspora and its interdependence with the rest of the world.
- ISBN10 1908248106
- ISBN13 9781908248107
- Publish Date 11 August 2011 (first published 27 September 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 July 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Legend Press Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 260
- Language English