In Dependence has received a great review from The East African. Below is a snippet:
'The middle section, “Some Years Later,” is set from 1970 to early 1994, when the optimism of post-colonial Nigeria is met with disappointment at the failures to fulfill that early promise.
The concluding section, “And Then,” covers the period between 1994 and 1998, a time of transition and cautious hope for the future. The novel juxtaposes this history with the personal stories of the lives of Tayo and Vanessa. Indeed, the reader experiences history through these two lovers’ stories.
The novelist Philip Roth once wrote, “The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides.” Literature has the power to articulate what it means to be inside history, revealing for readers what it is like to be part of a historical moment.
This is the laudable achievement of Manyika’s novel. Readers gain deeper insights into Nigerian history, from the Biafran War to the military coups of the 1970s and early 1990s and the cautious optimism of the return of democracy in the late 1990s, through the experience of Tayo.'
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