Tayo and Vanessa
will find themselves again after 3
decades and a lifetime of events that will see their families ripped
apart and a continent’s promise
of a golden independence broken. In Dependence is described as a
love story. But it is more than
that. It tracesthe trajectory of
Nigeria’s political history; the
military coups, the bad and
treacherous leadership, and its renewed tentative steps towards
democracy. It speaks to the
demise (in the 1980s) of Nigeria’s
international.reputation and the
country’s rapidly destabilizing
reality. It looks at the poor whose situation never improved but
actually worsened. Using events
in Tayo’s life, it. describes the
effects of misrule on the
country’s universities and the
ensuing massive brain drain that Africa experienced in the 1980s.
The author achieves all this with
a voice and an outlook that is
truly authentic and objective. I
loved the scenes in the 1960s.
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