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Interview · August 2026

Inside The Weight of Becoming

A long-form interview in which Adebayo discusses why he wrote the book, the years spent drafting it, and the chapter he found hardest to finish.

From the Transcript

“I didn't want to write a book that made people feel comfortable,” he says early in the conversation. “I wanted to write one that made the discomfort useful.” The conversation moves from his years in Lagos to the particular chapter — Ambition Has a Cost — that took the longest to get right.