Major Characters From 'IN DEPENDENCE' UTME Candidates Should Know

In-Dependence

It is important to take note of some characters in a book while reading especially if you are going to be tested on that book.

Concerning the book "In Dependence" that UTME candidates will be tested on, 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
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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.