Irrespective of your course of study or
method of testing, you will
be tested on this book.
The book is to be given to candidates after
paying for the 2017
UTME registration.
However, for most candidates who would
prefer a soft copy of the
book. Here is a summary of the book based
on a review by IDOKO
OJABO.
“In Dependence” by Sarah Ladipo
Manyika for UTME Candidates
SUMMARY OF THE BOOK “IN DEPENDENCE”
Tayo Ajayi, a Nigerian, and Vanessa
Richardson, an English lady,
had their affair boiling when it began,
however as circumstances
have been meant to intervene, the
connection went sore and it
appeared nothing may ever carry them
collectively.
The book (In dependence) has characters
that behaved in like-
patterns, like within the case of Tayo’s pal,
Yusuf, who had dated
tons of white English women.
He (Yusuf) ended up marrying a Nigerian
Lady as predicted (Yusuf
knew what he needed and appeared to get
it).
Tayo additionally ended up the identical
method in as a lot as his
affair with Vanessa Richardson had been
gleaming, though he had
been out of the error of getting a younger
lady (Miriam) pregnant.
And speaking of sample, the novel’s (In
dependence) starting had
opened up introducing Tayo’s affair with
Christine, a Nigerian Igbo
woman. One would suppose that Manyika
needed to finish Tayo’s
relationship with Christine for the sake of
bringing in Vanessa into
Tayo’s life, however nonetheless, Tayo
needed to find yourself
marrying Miriam. And nonetheless the
wedding failed, giving in to
the acquainted sample.
Miriam in Manyika’s novel (In dependence)
represented the
breeds of the Nigerians that may all the
time run away to reside
overseas because of the collapsing picture
of their dwelling
nation.
Miriam went away together with her
daughter leaving Tayo
behind. In as a lot as she persuaded Tayo,
he wouldn’t go. She
didn’t like an inconveniencing life. She
needed the perfect life for
her daughter.
Tayo, on the opposite facet represented the
crude breeds of
Nigerians that felt dwelling was dwelling
despite the fact that the
nation was boiling in corruption. In as a lot
because the failure of
the nation stared firmly at his face with
daggers, he selected to
remain.
In direction of the late pages of the novel he
needed to depart the
nation underneath threatening circumstances
towards his life
from the ruling navy regime.
The complete novel is informed from the
great days of Nigeria’s
independence down into the nineties. I
applaud Manyika’s ink,
right here. In as a lot because the setting of
this novel floated by
way of England, Senegal, USA, and France,
she was ready to make
use of her third eye to attract out Nigeria’s
journey into the more
serious lanes of corruption, and
hopelessness.
Religion is one other situation that Manyika
(In dependence)
handled. It didn’t matter to her if one was a
Muslim or Christian.
Studying by way of this novel, one couldn’t
inform if Tayo got here
from a Muslim or Christian household
however we did know he
embraced extra of the Christian religion. She
didn’t level out the
difficulties of inter-religious marriages within
the novel (In
dependence), however centred extra on the
difficulties of
interracial marriage.
Throughout Tayo’s life as an element time
lecturer in Sans
Francisco, the creator used a scene to
unbolt some deeper points
of racism.
She identified the racist ties between the
African American and the
pure African. These points she raised apply
in all places even
inside Nigerians.
A Yoruba would check with an Igbo as a
grasping cash monger
and doubtful monster, and in flip the Igbo
would check with the
Yoruba as a unclean, loquacious and silly
character who spend all
he earns on events and alcohol. It needed to
be understood that
racism was one these existences that may
reside for a very long
time so far as misunderstanding between
folks existed.
I captured traces which are coated with
humour on this novel,
however might be referred to as racial
remarks. Younger black
Yusuf got here clear in his dialog with Tayo.
He mentioned white
ladies have been for intercourse treats
whereas black ladies have
been for respectable relationships that would
result in marriage.
He added white lady regarded so previous
when she turned thirty.
The worst racist on this e-book (In
dependence) is Vanessa’s
father who was a one time colonial grasp in
Nigeria earlier than
1960.
He was towards Tayo marrying his daughter,
and had refused to
just accept Vanessa’s adopted half-cast son.
He appeared extra
racial towards half-casts earlier within the
novel (In dependence)
confronting Tayo about his fears for a half-
cast grandchild. It was
later understood that his hatred for the
blacks was consequently
of an affair his spouse had with a black man
through the colonial
period.
Manyika, whose image reveals she is
probably half-cast, was
capable of make a degree right here. She
drew a distinction
between being black and being a half-cast
(brown). This could
have been fairly a storm for her to jot down
about as a result of of
the racial wind towards the brown folks
residing in whitely
dominated areas. In distinction to a pure
black nation, half-casts
are seen lovely which Manyika didn’t level
out. In reality within the
black continent, the standard black man
could really feel inferior
to a half-cast.
Manyika was additionally capable of painting
the polemic assault
Nigerians obtain from all over the world
nowadays. She didn’t
carry this to print however the picture was
represented, and I
needed to determine it out. I can say it
clouds across the ache felt
every time an IELTS or TOEFL examination
is required earlier than
a Nigerian may research overseas.
This doesn’t exclude a
masters’ diploma. Does the world suppose
Nigerians converse
Latin or Greek or some sort of language
referred to as ‘Nigerian’?
‘I said I haven’t heard you converse
Nigerian,’ Joyce says.
Joyce is one of Manyika’s English
characters. And I like the way
in which Yusuf replies this. ‘Nobody speaks
Nigerian, you daft
thing,’.
A coincidence on this novel which I refuse
to just accept was the
scene during which Vanessa had simply
come throughout one of
her finest music, Hugh Maskela, a music that
reminded her of
Nelson Mandela and on the same day, not
even up to two hours if
I could rightly predict, her white husband is
presenting her with
‘Long Walk to Freedom’, Nelson Mandela’s
biography.
What a coincidence! I additionally don’t
embrace the truth that
Manyika noticed hope for Nigeria by way of
the eyes of Tayo
solely when Abacha died. There are
nonetheless Abacha loyalists
in Nigeria as we speak who will discover this
offending. She ought
to have saved the road in a riddle.
Vanessa did meet with Tayo on the finish of
the novel,
nevertheless it was laborious to foretell if in
any respect a love
relationship was ignited between them.
Vanessa was nonetheless
married, however Tayo wasn’t. Manyika
maintained a non-
adulterous plight between the 2 right here.
The happy-ending-
formula which most romance writers adapt
was by some means
blurring within the novel.
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