An African in Greenland

#836
Title: An African in Greenland
Author: Tété-Michel Kpomassie
Publisher: New York Review Books
Year: 1981/2001
Country: Togo
300 pages

Togo. There's more of Greenland than of Togo, but Kpomassie's childhood and early adolescence provide the background for this tale. It's an adventure narrative, though not an impulsive one. Rather, it's a testament to a man who had a goal and slogged his way toward it over a number of years. Read with Gretel Ehrlich's This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland for two views of sometimes-similar experiences.