Author · Speaker · Researcher
Stories and wisdom for people who carry more than they show.
I write and speak on migration, belonging and the quiet strengths that hold people together, drawing on a life and career that has crossed four continents, and on his research on immigrant integration.
New · Fiction · Coming November 2026
Stories of Diaspora, Duty, and the Weight of Other People’s Expectations
Thirty-five short stories about the people who leave home, and the expectations that follow them. An engineer with an Alberta master’s degree, working the night line at a car plant, woken at 4 a.m. by a request to fund a friend’s bigger flat. A doctor driving Uber while the clinic he paid for back home becomes a goat pasture. An uncle in Glasgow who says no to the one request that was true.
Set across Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and North America, the book takes no sides. It says the quiet part out loud, so that both sides of the ocean can do better by each other.
“Naira or nakfa, the message reads the same in every language.”From “Top of the Day”
Books
Stories and guides on migration, belonging and starting over, alongside books on faith, character and daily living. Published by ARKO Publishing House; in paperback and eBook on Amazon, and as eBooks for readers in Africa through Selar.
NewFiction · Short stories
Stories of Diaspora, Duty, and the Weight of Other People’s Expectations
Thirty-five stories set across six continents about the people who leave home, the families who wait for them, and the expectations that travel in between.
Personal growth
Finding Home When You’re Starting Over
For immigrants, career-changers and anyone caught between two lives: real case studies, clear principles and practical steps for the season between what you left and what you are building.
Faith · Opportunity
How to Recognize Help Before You Miss It
No door opens on its own. Old stories, from a prisoner waiting two years to be remembered to a blind man who refused to be quieted, paired with modern ones: how to position yourself for help, and the quiet mistakes that cost people the help in front of them.
Faith · Family · Legacy
What We Inherit, What We Interrupt, What We Leave Behind
Every family passes something down. Through fifteen biblical handoffs, from Elijah and Elisha to Joseph’s mercy, learn to recognise what you inherited, interrupt harmful patterns without dishonouring where you came from, and hand on something better.
Faith · Restoration
How God Turns Our Worst Moments Into Our Greatest Testimony
Your worst moments were never meant to be the final word. For everyone still carrying a mistake nobody has let them put down, and for those learning to extend the grace they once needed.
Church leadership
Navigating Change, Culture, and Offense in the House of God
Every local church is, sooner or later, a room full of people who know each other too well. A direct, practical guide to leadership transitions, changed traditions, culture and offense, and honouring history without worshipping it.
Faith · Discernment
Testing the Voice, Testing the Heart
Not an argument against the prophetic gift, but a call back to its health: sent rather than self-appointed, tested rather than simply trusted. From Elijah on Carmel to Micaiah standing alone, with a seventeen-session study guide.
Faith · Purpose
Godliness, Wisdom, and Purpose for a Life You Didn’t Choose
Carried into Babylon against his will, Daniel was found “ten times better” than all the wise men of the realm. Thirteen chapters on thriving with integrity in a season you did not choose, with a thirteen-session study guide.
Faith · Character
Virtues, Weaknesses, and the God Who Transforms Us
Twenty modern character portraits, each paired with a biblical parallel, on the virtues we grow and the weaknesses we wrestle with, and the God who keeps shaping who we are becoming.
Faith · Endurance
Running with Purpose, Discernment, and Divine Strength
Life is a race set before each of us (Hebrews 12:1). Nineteen chapters on pacing, endurance, discernment and the strength that carries you to the finish, written for every runner, whatever their starting line.
Devotional
Twenty Stories of the Overlooked Ones God Used
A servant girl who pointed a general to healing. A boy with five loaves and two fishes. Twenty Scripture stories of people others overlooked, each with its history, a modern application and questions for reflection.
Inspiration · 2019
365 wisdom and inspirational quotes and phrases for successful daily living
Short, memorable lines to turn your daily focus toward words that inspire, instruct, correct and guide. What you reflect on shapes the direction of your mind.
Inspiration · 2019
300 short wisdom and inspirational quotes and phrases for transformative change
In a noisy world, the words that cut through are not the loudest but the sharpest. Short, inspired lines to help you speak with clarity, conviction and impact.
Coming soon
Leadership · Faith
The Hidden Roots That Hold Families, Teams and Communities Together
The strongest part of a forest is the part you never see. A book for parents, volunteers, support staff, sponsors, intercessors and every visible leader who wants to honour the roots that hold them up.
Hear when it launches →
Fiction · A novel
A sweeping story of family, land and what we hand down
In 1959 a widow clears a piece of red earth in southwestern Nigeria. One son leaves for Canada; one son stays. Decades later a granddaughter raised in Mississauga carries the land like an old passport photograph, and the land itself tells what the family cannot say. From the author of The Chronicles of Abroadians.
Hear when it launches →Short fiction“Twists and Turns” (2013), a short story published by FICTION on the WEB.
Words to carry
The strongest part of a forest is the part you never see.
Giving without boundaries isn’t generosity; it is fear wearing generosity’s clothes.
Naira or nakfa, the message reads the same in every language.
About
Agriculture, finance, faith and writing, across Nigeria, Ghana, Germany, briefly the Middle East, and Canada.
Raphael Adegboye is an author and speaker on migration, belonging and leadership, based in Ontario, Canada. He is also a minister of the Word of God who has had the privilege of serving and ministering at various congregations, and a leader in finance and risk.
Trained in agriculture, he spent his early career in agribusiness in Nigeria and Ghana before graduate study and work in Germany. In Canada he moved into agricultural and commercial finance, and over the years into senior credit and risk leadership, including with Fortune 500 companies. Along the way he learned that what happens beneath the surface usually decides what grows above it, in a field, a company or a family.
His writing grows from that ground. He writes about migration and belonging, the quiet weight carried by people abroad and the families they leave behind, and the faith that holds people steady when no one is watching. He speaks to churches, diaspora communities, workplaces and book clubs.
Ile-Ife
7.47° N · 4.56° E
Agriculture degree and the first years in agribusiness.
Accra
5.60° N · 0.19° W
Technical sales across Ghana and Nigeria.
Bonn
50.73° N · 7.10° E
Master’s research on linking smallholder farmers in Kenya to high-value markets.
Ontario
43.7° N · 79.4° W
Finance and risk leadership, ministry, community service and writing.
Leadership
A career spanning agribusiness, strategic management, and credit and risk leadership at major financial institutions in Canada and the United States, including Fortune 500 companies, alongside board service and community work.
20+
years across agribusiness, strategy, and credit and risk
4
continents of work, study and service
12
books published, with more on the way
Research
Raphael's doctoral research, for his Doctor of Business Administration, looks at how newcomers integrate and build successful lives in Canada, and at how their contributions are recognized.
The work shaped his books on migration and leadership, and a conviction that runs through all of them: the visible is not the only valuable.
Ministry
Raphael is a minister of the Word of God who has had the privilege of serving and ministering at various congregations. His teaching is practical and rooted in Scripture, speaking to faithfulness in hidden seasons, wisdom in daily life, and the gifts every member brings to the body.
“For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office.”Romans 12:4
Speaking
Keynotes, workshops, author talks and podcast conversations for newcomer organisations, diaspora communities, workplaces, universities, churches and book clubs, in person in the Greater Toronto Area or online.
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Money, family and boundaries in the diaspora: how to give generously without losing your peace, and how families back home can ask well.From The Chronicles of Abroadians
What newcomers, career-changers and anyone in transition need to hear about the in-between season, and how to build a new life without losing the old one.From Between Shores
Influence beyond the stage: parents, volunteers, boards, sponsors and intercessors, and the Pareto Principle applied to the hidden people who hold teams together.From the forthcoming book
What organisations and community leaders can learn about how newcomers succeed, and how to see and value the full range of their contributions.From his doctoral research
Living out Scripture in demanding careers: integrity, wisdom and steady faithfulness in workplaces that reward visibility.From his ministry
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Raphael Adegboye is an author and speaker on migration, belonging and leadership, based in Ontario, Canada. His books include The Chronicles of Abroadians and Between Shores. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration, with research on immigrant integration and recognition. Learn more at raphaeladegboye.com.
Our guest has worked across four continents, in agribusiness in Nigeria and Ghana, in research in Germany, and in credit and risk leadership in Canada and the United States, including with Fortune 500 companies. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration, is a minister of the Word of God who has had the privilege of serving and ministering at various congregations, and is the author of books on faith, migration and leadership. Please welcome Raphael Adegboye.
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