Between Sujood
& Strategy

Rahmah Aderinoye is a social entrepreneur, author, and the Founder and CEO of Rashak Group, a diversified agribusiness group working to build sustainable food systems across Africa. Her work spans agricultural production, commodity aggregation, grain processing, food manufacturing, and cold chain logistics.

Through its subsidiaries — Rashak Farms & Agro-Allied Limited, RA Mills, Rashak Foods, and The Cold Place — the Group addresses some of agriculture's most persistent problems: post-harvest losses, broken supply chains, and constrained market access for smallholder farmers.

Central to her work is a commitment to smallholder farmers, particularly women and youth, built on ethical financing, agricultural training, and direct market access. Under her leadership, Rashak Group has impacted thousands of farmers across Nigeria while building agricultural systems designed for long-term commercial viability and food security.

Driven by the belief that life is not meant to be lived in fragments, Rahmah's approach to leadership integrates faith, strategy, and service — a philosophy this book embodies from the first page to the last.

Her background spans science, public health, and enterprise development, shaping a leadership style built on systems thinking, integrity, and the willingness to make decisions in conditions that don't offer certainty. Her work has been recognised locally and internationally, including the Resolution Project Fellowship at the United Nations, the Acumen West Africa Fellowship, and a Top 20 African Business Hero nomination.

In Between Sujood and Strategy, Rahmah writes not as a theorist but as someone who has lived these realities — leadership, motherhood, faith, and the cost of building something meaningful — without the benefit of a clean separation between any of them. The book asks a question she has had to answer in real conditions: how do you pursue what you are capable of without losing what you believe? What she has found, and what she shares here, is that the two were never actually in conflict.

Rahmah is a wife and mother. She lives in Nigeria and believes, without apology, that the women in the room change what the room decides. She believes that leadership is an amanah — a trust — and that professional excellence, pursued with the right intention, can itself become an act of worship.