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An African in Greenland

Tete-Michel Kpomassie
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It’s the best book ever written on Greenland. It’s the story of a boy from Togo who went to Greenland in the 1960s to live with the Inuits and he learnt to dig an igloo burrow and drive dogs, and he integrated all right! He ended up in hospital with a suspected case of the clap.