Teté-Michel Kpomassie, the most popular African in the Arctic

In the summer of 1965, Tété-Michel Kpomassie became the first African to explore Greenland. He was 24 the day that he stepped on the dock at Qaqortoq, on Greenland’s southern coast. But his arctic journey had actually begun some eight years prior, in the West African town of Lomé, Togo. Now 83, Kpomassie’s fabled life … Continue reading Teté-Michel Kpomassie, the most popular African in the Arctic