When I first started this column in our first issue, I was worried about how long it would last given the difficulty I originally had on finding documentation on historical Black Expats around the world. Every quarter though it seems I find something new and interesting to bring up and I have at least a year of stories left!
Scandinavia is known to most as the home of blondes, great manufacturers like Volvo & SKF as well as the epitome of social democracy. Scandinavia traditionally includes a core of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark with Iceland sometimes tied in due to ties of ancestry. Finland, neighboring Sweden, is not considered Scandinavian because despite its location, the cultural and linguistic background of its people are not Germanic (see Wikipedia for details). Up there in the cold, part of of which is in the Arctic circle, it may seem the last place to have Black expats historically but this was definitely not the case. For many reasons, Scandinavia has typically been viewed very highly by Blacks and has been a favored destination by the few whom have come to experience it.
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