A review by jasschumacher
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie

adventurous informative medium-paced

3.0

What made me read a book about a Togolese man travelling to Greenland? Perhaps I also have Fernweh. I'm glad I do and just as glad to have read this book. This is an interesting and impactful personal account of two cultures meeting for the first time.

"I was now convinced that I was living among people no different from any other men on this earth [...]." (pg. 208)

"[...] I had never missed my native Africa, for the poetry of movement of the ice froze up the muggy heat of my native tropics. I had adapted so well to Greenland that I believed nothing could stop me spending the rest of my days there." (pg. 297)
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