Things I Wrote Down

Things I Wrote Down

Prayers Are Seeds that Become a Garden

An interview with author Rayo Adegoke

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Andrew Kooman
Nov 21, 2025
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Rayo Adegoke is paying attention. The Nigerian-Canadian writer is attentive to how stories carry meaning across generations.

In this instalment of 10 Qs, Rayo shares how the writing life is the listening life, how her new book on prayer emerged, that the dreams we carry can be carried by others, and why prayer isn’t an end point, but a place to go first.

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