About Dayo Akindele

I was born in New Haven, and I didn’t stay anywhere long. Dayton. Junction City. Lawrenceville. New streets, new faces, and every time the same question: what happened here before I got here?

In my family, African American history wasn’t extra credit. It was the foundation. So I kept digging, through records and family trees, until the names in my genealogy stopped being names and started being people.

That’s what Six Blocks Press is about. Every block has a story, and most of them never made it into a textbook. I write them down so the next generation doesn’t have to go looking.

Dayo means “joy has arrived” in Yoruba, and Akindele means “the brave one has come home.”

Thank you for reading with your kids.

Dayo Akindele