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In Dependence In Dependence By Sarah Ladipo Manyika
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Title: In Dependence
Author: Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Synopsis
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.
About the author
Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a writer of novels, short stories and essays translated into several languages. She is author of the best-selling novel In Dependence (2009) and multiple shortlisted novel Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016), and has had work published in publications including Granta, The Guardian, the Washington Post and Transfuge among others. Sarah serves as Board Chair for the women’s writing residency, Hedgebrook; she was previously Board Director for the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; and has been a judge for the Goldsmiths Prize, California Book Awards, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and Chair of judges for the Pan-African Etisalat Prize. Sarah is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Her most recent book is Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora
Blurbs
‘Sarah Ladipo Manyika tells a compelling story that challenges centuries of stereotypes of what an African story can be—one that weaves love, history and race across decades and continents. It also reminds us of how Africa has always been embedded in the world and the world in Africa. The novel is a graceful and astonishing achievement.’ — Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard
‘I so enjoyed this beautiful and ambitious novel spanning four decades. It refracts race, culture, politics, work and family through a great love story between a Nigerian man and British woman. The writing is crisp and un-showy, the storytelling immersive, and the characters are all written with sensitivity, showing their humanity. The generation of African men who arrived in Britain in the middle of the twentieth century, and married white women, is a lesser-told tale in both British and African fiction. This is an important novel which bridges the gap between then and now.’ — Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize Winner
‘In Dependence is a riveting love story across the challenges of race, geography and scars of colonial history.’ –Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’, Author and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine
‘A big and elegantly told story of lost love.’ — Brian Chikwava, Author of Harare North
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