In Dependence - Tapa blanda

'It is a mark of Manyika's care for her characters that life and love so engagingly result in a hopeful union.' --Akin Adesokan, author of Roots in the Sky

'Sarah Ladipo Manyika's novel has the subtle power of a well woven work, nothing is out of place... it is full of surprises.' --Obi Nwankanam, Vanguard

'A big and elegantly told story of lost love.' --Brian Chikwava, Author of Harare North

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.