CHARACTERS OF THE STORY IN DEPENDENCE

Omotayo Oluwakayode Ajayi
also known as TY
Inspector Adeniyi Ajayi : Tayo’s father who was once a court servant and an interpreter in the native administration before joining the police

Mr Jonathan Richardson: Father of Venessa

Mrs Elizabeth Richardson: Mother of Venessa

Mr Edward Maximilian Barker : The one welcomed Omotayo prior to the letter given to Tayo by Mr Faircliff

Headmaster Faircliff: Tayo’s headmaster

Mr Clark Tayo's mathematics teacher

Mr Blackburn
british empire history teacher

Bisi and Remi siblings of Tayo

Modupe Tayo’s lover before going to Oxford at age 19

Uncle Bolu
also known as Uncle B: Tayo’s uncle who loved drinking and women and women also loved him in return.

Uncle Oluwakayode Ogundipe: A big man in Lagos, who lived in a luxurious, a senior army officer before leaving for France to study Engineering. He was able to meet Venessa

Helen: Uncle Kayode’s wife

Aunty Bayo: Former girl friend of Uncle Kayode

Mr Lekan Olajide from Ogbomoso on a voyage
Mr Ibrahim Mohammed from Kaduna on a voyage

Mrs Isabella Barker
an attractive young Italian woman who preferred to be called Isabella

Mr Ike Nwade
a student of History

Mr Bolaji Ladipupo a law student

Miss Christine Arinze
a student of Modern language: who later became Tayo’s girlfriend but had a misunderstanding with Tayo because he didn’t want a longtime relationship. She later on had Ike has her boyfriend. She died of drug overdose (Suicide).

Christopher Okigbo a poet and Omotayo’s teacher

Venessa Richardsonaka Moremi by Tayo to show her fighting spirit. Tayo’s white lady lover.

Gita from Kenya an English student

Pat a physicist

Jane
a friend to Venessa a physicist also (whites)

Charlie and Mehul(whites)

Simon the president of west African student

Francis from Ghana who was with the idea that independence came far too early for africans

Maynes Keynes

Venessa’s grandpa was in the colonial service

Juma and Saratu? Are they cats?

Lord Lugard was once the governor of Hong kong before coming to Nigeria and he also became our governor in the year 1914

Nancy Murdoch and Mr Murdoch

Uncle Tony who had sex with Jane

Madam Pagnole

Chinua Achebe; things fall apart and No longer at Ease
Nkrumah: The first president of Ghana and Senghor of Senegal
Kenyatt of

Tunde the cousin of Tayo who works in the bakery

Abubakar: who works in the hospital. HE believed white women were only meant for friendship but not for marriage with his genuine reasons

Joyce: yusuf’s white girlfriend who said he hasn’t heard Yusuf speak Nigerian before and then Yusuf replied her you daft one, no one speaks Nigerian

Mr and Mrs winter: across the road at Bradley

Joy Williams: the black WOMAN Yusuf got married to

Anais Nin the first british erotic writer

Nigerian coup d’etat and Biafran war
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Samatou: an hairstylist in Dakar, Senegal who died in a motor accident

Jean Luc: A French who had promised to marry Salamatou but ran away after he got to know she was pregnant

Miriam: A nurse, whom treated Tayo’s father and got pregnant for Tayo. Got married to Tayo and gave birth to Kemi.

Kemi: Daughter of Tayo and Miriam

President Shagari

Mr Akin: A carver

Wole Soyinka, Okri the booker.

Aureol: SHIPPING COMPANY

Dogun Dutse mobile station

Samir:from Bradford

Suleiman; Salamatou’s son hence Venessa’s adopted son. A muslim he became and a drop out from Cambridge

Abdou: The driver who was taken Tayo to the airport before an accident occur

Laurent: is kemi’s boyfriend

Danjuma:the gardner

Professor John Harris He: is the man whom Kemi introduced to his father from the university.