With a population of approximately 56,000 inhabitants, Greenland is the world’s most sparsely populated country. About a third live in the capital Nuuk and one of them is Kiki Pippi Godtfredsen who is a musician and influencer.
She wants to give hope to younger people, but being young and working with social media in a small town is both quiet, calm and not always easy, she says.
– I want to empower young girls. But everyone knows everyone here, which is good and bad.
88 percent in Greenland speak the indigenous language Kalaallisut, which is colloquially known as Greenlandic. It is also Godtfredsen’s heart language, but she is just as good at Danish as English.
New airline offers opportunities
She hopes to soon get more use out of the latter language. For Greenland, which has been isolated in many ways with its sometimes poor internet connections and great distances, the runway at the airport in the capital has been expanded, and next year there will be a new flight line between Nuuk and New York in the USA.
This means that the islanders who want to go out into the world will be as close to New York as they are to Copenhagen, where Denmark’s capital used to be the destination that was most close at hand.
– I am looking forward to it very much. It’s good for my inspiration and I want to travel to New York.
The main idea with the new connection is of course also to attract more tourists to Nuuk.
Godtfredsen says that it is special to live in Greenland where large groups do not have the same hope for the future as she herself has. She wants an approach that inspires hope and therefore wants to sing, offer lightness and laughter.
– It is such a small society here, we may not talk completely openly, but it is important to talk about mental illness. We should be able to talk about everything but also joke.