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An African in Greenland Wikipedia An African in Greenland is a 1981 book by the Togolese author TétéMichel Kpomassie The book details Kpomassies upbringing in Togo his encounter as a teen with a book about Greenland and his determination to move there and become a hunter An African in Greenland New York Review Books Classics An African in Greenland an autobiography that chronicles his journey was awarded the Prix Littéraire Francophone International in 1981 and its English translation was one of The New York Times’ Notable Books of the Year in 1983 Kpomassie has written numerous articles and short stories for French publications An African in Greenland by TeteMichel Kpomassie An African in Greenland an autobiography that chronicles his journey was awarded the Prix Littéraire Francophone International in 1981 and its English translation was one of The New York Times’ Notable Books of the Year in 1983 Kpomassie has written numerous articles and short stories for French publications The Generalist ARCHIVE AN AFRICAN IN GREENLAND 1 archive an african in greenland 1 One of the most extraordinary people I have met in my life is the African man who went to Greenland Tete Michel Kpomassie I was a Secker Warburg author at that time and often spoke with Barley Alison who ran a subsidiary firm within the company An African in Greenland Introduction AN AFRICAN IN GREENLAND TÉTÉMICHEL KPOMASSIE was born in Togo in 1941 and now lives in France He left elementary school after six years and received the rest of his education in the course of his extensive travels in Europe and Africa In 1981 he was awarded the Prix Littéraire Francophone for An African in Greenland How big are Greenland and Russia in comparison to Africa We are all used to seeing the following kind of maps in Google Maps and other map providers this one in particular is taken from Google Maps Were you ever wondering how huge Greenland was If we just take the shape of Greenland and put it over Africa it looks like a huge desert of snow So is Greenland really so big An African in Greenland by TétéMichel Kpomassie An African in Greenland This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit is a testament both to the wonderful strangeness of the human species and to the surprising sympathies that bind us all Born in Togo Kpomassie subsequently left his native Africa and traveled to the north of Greenland in a journey that lasted ten years An African in Greenland – TétéMichel Kpomassie Pseudo An African in Greenland – TétéMichel Kpomassie He was raised in a traditional family – his father had eight wives older siblings had unequivocal authority over younger ones and in the grip of sickness a white chicken may be sacrificed to postpone death As a teenager harvesting coconuts from the top of a 60 foot palm tree An AfricAn in GreenlAnd com An African in Greenland raised a lot of interest any time I brought it up with artists and writers I found that many shared my enthusiasm for the remarkable odyssey and so when Michelle Levy EFA Project Space’s Program Director invited me to curate a show I offered to solicit artists to create work in response to the book An African boys remarkable odyssey to the Arctic BBC News Years later he wrote an awardwinning account of his odyssey An African in Greenland which has been translated into eight languages Witness History The stories of our times told by the
