A review by jaan
An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie

emotional informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.75

VERY interesting. For me, Kpomassie’s wit and storytelling capability really shine when he is documenting his experience learning and acclimating to Inuit diet and hunting practices; and when he is describing Greenland’s natural landscape, including the arctic days and nights, the sea, the ice, and the aurora borealis.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Racial slurs

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Sexual violence

Kpomassie wrote this travelogue during the 1950s, at which point the widespread practice was to refer to native Greenlanders as “Esk*mos,” rather than as Inuit. The slur is all over the book.