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JAMB NOVEL IN'DEPENDENCE:SOME IMPORTANT CHARACTER
Concerning the book “In Dependence”, we have compiled a list of important characters in the book. JAMB may equally ask questions based on this. So do well, to get your self familiar with these characters
*SOME IMPORTANT CHARACTERS
OF THE BOOK “IN DEPENDENCE”*
1. Omotayo Oluwakayode Ajayi also
known as TY.
2. Inspector Adeniyi Ajayi : Tayo’s
father who was once a court
servant and an interpreter in the
native administration before joining
the police.
3. Mr Jonathan Richardson: Father
of Venessa.
4. Mrs Elizabeth Richardson:
Mother of Venessa.
5. Mr Edward Maximilian Barker:
The one who welcomed Omotayo
prior to the letter given to Tayo by
Mr Faircliff.
6. Headmaster Faircliff: Tayo’s
Headmaster.
7. Mr Clark: Tayo’s Mathematics
Teacher.
8. Mr Blackburn: British empire
history teacher.
9. Bisi and Remi: Siblings of Tayo.
10. Modupe: Tayo’s Lover before
going to Oxford at age 19.
11. Uncle Bolu also known as Uncle
B: Tayo’s uncle who loved drinking
and women. And women also loved
him in return.
12. 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.
13. Helen: Uncle Kayode’s wife.
14. Aunty Bayo: Former girl friend
of Uncle Kayode.
15. Mr Lekan Olajide from
Ogbomoso on a voyage.
16. Mr Ibrahim Mohammed from
Kaduna on a voyage
17. Mrs Isabella Barker: An
attractive young Italian woman who
preferred to be called “Isabella”.
18. Mr Ike Nwade: A student of
History.
19. Mr Bolaji Ladipupo: A Law
student.
20. 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).
21. Christopher Okigbo: A poet and
Omotayo’s teacher.
22. Venessa Richardson”aka
Moremi by Tayo to show her
fighting spirit”: Tayo’s white Lady
lover.
23. Gita from Kenya: An English
student.
24. Pat: A Physicist.
25. Jane: A Friend to Venessa a
physicist also (whites).
26. Charlie and Mehul: (whites)
27. Simon: The president of west
African Student.
28. Francis: From Ghana who was
with the idea that independence
came far too early for africans
29. Maynes Keynes: Venessa’s
grandpa was in the colonial service
Juma and Saratu? Are they cats?
30. Lord Lugard: was once the
governor of Hong kong before
coming to Nigeria and he also
became our governor in the year
1914
31. Nancy Murdoch and Mr
Murdoch.
32. Uncle Tony: who had s*x with
Jane.
33. Madam Pagnole.
34. Chinua Achebe: things fall apart
and No longer at Ease.
35. Nkrumah: The first president of
Ghana and Senghor of Senegal
Kenyatt.
36. Tunde: the cousin of Tayo who
works in the bakery.
37. Yusuf Abubakar: who works in
the hospital. HE believed white
women were only meant for
friendship but not for marriage with
his genuine reasons.
38. 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.
39. Mr and Mrs winter: across the
road at Bradley
40. Joy Williams: The black
WOMAN Yusuf got married to.
41. Anais Nin: The first British
erotic writer.
42. Nigerian coup d’etat and Biafran
war.
43. Salamatou: an hairstylist in
Dakar, Senegal who died in a motor
accident
44. Jean Luc: A French who had
promised to marry Salamatou but
ran away after he got to know she
was pregnant.
45. Miriam: A nurse, whom treated
Tayo’s father and got pregnant for
Tayo. Got married to Tayo and gave
birth to Kemi.
46. Kemi: Daughter of Tayo and
Miriam
47. President Shagari.
48. Mr Akin: A carver.
49. Wole Soyinka: Okri the Booker.
50. Aureol: SHIPPING COMPANY.
51. Dogun Dutse Mobile station.
52. Samir: From Bradford.
53. Suleiman: Salamatou’s son
hence Venessa’s adopted son. A
Muslim he became and a drop out
from Cambridge.
54. Abdou: The driver who was
taken Tayo to the airport before an
accident occur.
55. Laurent: Kemi’s boyfriend.
56. Danjuma: The gardener.
57. Professor John Harris: He is the
man whom Kemi introduced to his
father from the University.
All the best.
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