Abstract
Sarah Ladipo Manyika has lived a global story that mirrors that of the protagonists in her recently reissued novel, In Dependence. Ladipo Manyika grew up in northern Nigeria, daughter of a Nigerian father and British mother, and has lived in Kenya, the UK, France, and, now, the US. In Dependence traces a thirty-year love story between Nigerian Tayo and British Vanessa that begins when they are Oxford undergraduates in the 1960s. But family concerns, professional ambitions, and the youthful need to adventure pull them apart. The novel depicts how individual personality chemistries and conflicts interplay with complexities of race, culture, nationality, and history. In a recent San Francisco conversation, we considered different ways that Nigerian, British, and American readers may experience this literary weave.
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