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As a child in #Togo, Kpoomassie found a book about Greenland and was just mesmerized. It took him years, but he got there and spent over a year traveling the country and meeting it‘s people, which he details here. He‘s a wonderful writer and I just loved this! I‘m also glad I couldn‘t smell the place because yikes! (Oh, and he‘s 5‘11”, but Greenlanders are so small, he looks like a giant.)

#ReadingAfrica2022

When the author was a boy in #Togo he suddenly decides he wants to live in #Greenland and sets of to do so. This #NYRB book is about his travels getting there but mostly about living among the people of Greenland. I learned a lot about them. Family dynamics, hunting, alcohol, winter and cold. It‘s a hard life under hard circumstances but with proud people. Very interesting!

#ReadingAfrica2022 🇹🇬 #ReadingTheAmericas2023 🇬🇱

A short book, we are already leaving #Ghana for #Togo, #BurkinaFaso, and #Niger. #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Disclaimer- I only read part two of this travelogue which covers Paige & Jim‘s 16 months driving through Africa! The Roger‘s with little planning but a lot of hubris and apparently endless funds decide to drive through the entire continent of Africa. I was a little amazed how these two made it out alive, as they went places they had no business being & stumbled upon some dangerous scenarios. And who knew you could drive across Africa??

Still LOVING the audio and the first person narrative stories. This current story is about the PanAm Lockerbie aviation terror attack. And it‘s focusing on #Libya #ReadingAfrica22 just in case anyone needs that country 😉 This story also mentions #Togo and #Senegal

A musician is murdered but the police, justice system, the whole government are corrupt. Indeed, any could have committed it. How can his friends find the murderer & help another musician in trouble with the law without ending up dead? This is an extraordinarily well-crafted murder mystery set in #Togo, with a set of Jazz fans trying to solve the murder with the thinnest of leads in a vastly corrupt world. Very well done; highly recommended.

This is an excellent murder mystery set in #Togo. I‘m trying to understand its 0 rating on Litsy because it is extremely well-written and I‘m learning an immense amount about Togo and this part of Africa. #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Employing my new idea to use google satellites to map where I am reading, here I am in Lomé, the capitol of #Togo. #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB