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.
This is a lyrical and moving story of unfulfilled love fraught with the weight of
history, race and geography and intertwined with questions of belonging, ageing, faith
and family secrets. In Dependence explores the complexities of contemporary Africa, its
diaspora and its interdependence with the rest of the world.

Dr. Morayo Da Silva, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman, lives in San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five, she has a zest for life and makes the most of it through road trips in her vintage Porsche, chatting to strangers, and reminiscing about characters from her favourite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family, she relies on friends and chance encounters to help keep her sanity. As Morayo recounts her story, moving seamlessly between past and present, we meet Dawud, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper, Sage, a feisty, homeless Grateful Dead devotee, and Antonio, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband.

A subtle story about ageing, friendship and loss, this is also a nuanced study of the erotic yearnings of an older woman