Perfect Peace (Black) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Kansas Ctiy, Missouri, USA
• Raised—Blackwell, Arkansas
• Education—B.A., Clark College; Ph.D., Temple University
• Currently—lives in Atlanta, Georgia.


Daniel Omotosho Black is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, yet spent the majority of his childhood years in Blackwell, Arkansas. He was granted a full scholarship to Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he majored in English. He was awarded the Oxford Modern British Studies Scholarship and studied abroad at Oxford University, Oxford, England.

Upon graduation from Clark College (magna cum laude in 1988), he was granted a full graduate fellowship to Temple University in pursuit of a Ph.D. in African-American Studies. Completing this phase of his academic career in 1993, with Sonia Sanchez as one of his dissertation advisers, Dr. Black returned to his alma mater in order to help establish the tradition of top-notch scholars who publish and remain at historically Black institutions.

As a tenured associate professor, he now aims to provide an example of young African Americans of the importance of self-knowledge and communal commitment.

Omotosho, as he prefers to be called, is the founder of the Nzinga-Ndugu rites of passage (or initiation) society — a group whose focus is instilling principle and character in the lives of African-American youth.

Novels
Black is the author of four novels, including They Tell Me of a Home (2005), The Sacred Place (2007), Perfect Peace (2010), and Twelve Gates to the City (2014).  (Adapted from the author's website.)