Tété-Michel Kpomassie - Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland

As a young man in the 1950s in a small village in Togo, West Africa, Tété-Michel Kpomassie was bitten by a snake while climbing a tree for coconuts. His father took him to a local snake cult to have him cured, and then planned to have him initiated as a priest of the cult. Kpomassie had other ideas. While recuperating from the bite he picked up a book about the Inuit of Greenland from the Jesuit

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