In Dependence [Paperback]

'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.

Sarah was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France and England. She is married to a Zimbabwean and currently resides in the United States where she lectures in English literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah holds a Ph.D. in Education with a focus on Africa and the African Diaspora.