ALTOONA, Pa. — Yaw Agawu-Kakraba, professor of Spanish and African studies at Penn State Altoona, gave a lecture on and readings from his award-winning novel, “The Restless Crucible,” at the Pagya Literary Festival in Accra, Ghana, on Oct. 19.

His lecture was on transatlantic migration. He explored 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.”