Manyika Sarah Ladipo - In Dependence - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " A graceful and astonishing achievement. Henry Louis Gates Jr." In Dependence is a riveting love story across the challenges of race geography and scars of colonial history." Ng g wa Thiong o" A beautiful and ambitious novel" Bernardine Evaristo author of Mr Loverman 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.
Title: In Dependence
Author(s): Manyika Sarah Ladipo
Publisher: Cassava Republic Press
Barcode: 9781911115779
Pages: 257 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction