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11/13/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 11/13/2024 13:46
Penn State Altoona professor offers lecture, reading at literary festival
Yaw Agawu-Kakraba, professor of Spanish and African studies at Penn Altoona, gave a lecture on and readings from his award-winning novel, "The Restless Crucible," at the Pagya Literary Festival in Accra, Ghana, on Saturday, Oct. 19.
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November 13, 2024
ALTOONA, Pa. - Yaw Agawu-Kakraba, professor of Spanish and African studies at Penn Altoona, gave a lecture on and readings from his award-winning novel, "The Restless Crucible," at the Pagya Literary Festival in Accra, Ghana, on Saturday, Oct. 19.
His lecture was on transatlantic migration. He explores this phenomenon through the Afro-Brazilian experience in his novel.
Currently on sabbatical, Agawu-Kakraba is doing research in Accra Jamestown, a neighborhood of Afro-Brazilian returnees for a book manuscript, "Tracing and Retracing the Triangle, Reverse Migration to West Africa."
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