African diaspora in Finland explained

Group:African diaspora in Finland
Population:At least 57,496
(1.0% of the population of Finland in 2020)
Popplace:Mostly in Uusimaa (Helsinki (Kallahti), Espoo, Vantaa), Turku, Vaasa and Porvoo
Langs:Numerous;

The African diaspora in Finland (Finnish: afrikkalaisten diaspora Suomessa) refers to the residents of Finland of full or partial African ancestry, mostly from Sub-Saharan Africa. According to Statistics Finland, the total number of people in Finland with a close African background (Africans in Finland; Finnish: Suomen afrikkalaiset) was 57,496 in 2020.[1]

The distinct adjacent term Afro-Finns (Finnish: afrosuomalaiset), also referred to as Black Finns (Finnish: mustat suomalaiset),[2] [3] [4] [5] can be used for Finns whose lineages are fully or partly in the populations of Sub-Saharan Africa ("Black Africa").[6] [7] Afro-Finns have lived in Finland since the 19th century, and in 2009, according to Yle, there were an estimated 20,000 Afro-Finns in Finland.[8]

History

Finns reacted to the first Africans in Finland with curiosity and amazement.[9] During the 19th century, there were some Africans from the Americas who worked as servants for wealthy Russians in the Grand Duchy of Finland. The first known African who received Finnish citizenship was Rosa Lemberg who came to Finland from Ovamboland in 1888 and received Finnish citizenship in 1899.[10] [11]

Between the 1900s and the 1970s, the few Africans in Finland were mostly either students (for example from Nigeria and Ethiopia), political exiles from South Africa or people married to Finns. In World War II (1939–1945), there were some Afro-Finnish soldiers, and among them were Private 1st Class, who served as a ski patrol leader in the Karelian Isthmus and was killed in the Winter War, and Corporal Holger Sonntag, who was of African-American and German descent and served as a driver in both the Winter War and Continuation War.[12]

In 1990, during the Somali Civil War, the first Somali refugees arrived in Finland.[13] [14] After that, due to their high total fertility rate and the high number of Somali family reunifications, quota refugees and asylum seekers, they rapidly became the largest African group in Finland.[15] [16] During the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championship held in Finland, most of the Sierra Leone national under-17 football team's players defected to Finland due to their country's poor conditions after a civil war that had ended a year earlier.[17]

Nowadays most people of African ancestry come to Finland from Africa, but many have also come from the United States, Latin America and other European countries. Especially Americans and British people of African ancestry have moved to Finland, mostly through marriage.[18]

Demographics

As of 31 December 2020, according to Statistics Finland, the total number of people in Finland with a close African background is 57,496, which is 1.0% of the population of Finland. 47,041 (81.8%) of them are from Sub-Saharan Africa. 32,511 (56.5%) of them are men, while 24,985 (43.5%) are women.

Countries of origin

Origins of people with a close African background! Country! Population ! Population
Total1,72057,496
Somalia4922,534
Nigeria894,150
63,965
Morocco3953,899
Ethiopia1082,967
Ghana672,479
Sudan112,013
Kenya711,845
Egypt1951,683
Cameroon41,641
Algeria2101,437
Eritrea11,288
231,207
Tunisia1451,128
Angola3678
56622
South Africa54516
Uganda7377
Rwanda2360
Libya19295
Senegal10271
Zambia27258
Liberia6187
Sierra Leone20186
17172
12169
Namibia66151
Zimbabwe7143
Guinea4141
Burundi3140
Togo3110
Mozambique568
Mauritius1250
Burkina Faso033
Mauritania032
Benin129
Niger129
Mali328
Djibouti027
Malawi226
Madagascar021
Botswana018
Gabon017
Central African Republic016
Equatorial Guinea016
16
Cape Verde214
Guinea-Bissau014
Comoros18
18
Chad27
Seychelles07
Lesotho00
00

Countries with a significant African diaspora

The following countries outside Africa have a majority population of Afro-descendants (90% or more of the country's total population)[19] and, as of 31 December 2020, a total of 127 expatriates or close descendants in Finland:

African languages

Speakers of languages of African origin[20] ! Language! Speakers
Total36,150
Somali22,794
Swahili2,560
Amharic1,662
Tigrinya1,662
Kinyarwanda1,226
Yoruba1,044
Igbo938
Lingala929
Twi670
Akan487
Wolof336
Kikuyu282
Hausa223
Fula174
Oromo174
Kongo156
Luganda137
Afrikaans119
Ewe118
Shona71
Chewa69
Kirundi67
Afar52
Luba-Katanga52
Ndonga49
Bambara17
Zulu16
Malagasy11
Tswana10
Sango9
Northern Ndebele8
Kwanyama5
Kanuri4
Southern Sotho4
Swazi4
Herero3
Southern Ndebele3
Xhosa3
Venda2

Distribution

Ten largest populations of people with a close African background by municipality! No.! Municipality! Population !
1.Helsinki22,1383.4%
2.Espoo7,7372.6%
3.Vantaa7,5203.2%
4.Turku3,3701.7%
5.Tampere2,3191.0%
6.Oulu1,6890.8%
7.Vaasa1,4742.2%
8.Jyväskylä1,0230.7%
9.Lahti7480.6%
10.Kuopio5520.5%

In Kallahti, a neighborhood of Helsinki, 9.8% of the population consists of Africans.[21]

On 31 December 2020, the region with the most people with a close African background was Uusimaa with 39,987 people (2.4% of the region's total population), which is 69.6% of their total population in Finland.[22]

Citizenships

On 31 December 2020, there were 19,544 people who had dual citizenship of Finland and an African country.[23]

Citizens of African countries who received Finnish citizenship by year:[24]

People born in Africa who received Finnish citizenship by year:[25]

Asylum seekers

1990–2013

From 1990 to 2013, a total of 14,481 African citizens sought asylum in Finland, which was 22.4% out of the total of 64,536 asylum seekers. African asylum seekers by country of citizenship:

There were not asylum seekers from Cape Verde, the Comoros, São Tomé and Príncipe or Seychelles.[26]

2015–2020

From January 2015 to August 2020, there were a total of 7,935 African citizens who sought asylum in Finland; 14.6% out of the total of 54,520 asylum seekers. African asylum seekers by country of citizenship:

There were not asylum seekers from Botswana, Djibouti, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, São Tomé and Príncipe or Seychelles.[27]

Adoptions

From 1987 to 2019, a total of 911 people were adopted from Africa to Finland. 843 (92.5%) of them were from the countries of South Africa (508, 55.8%), Ethiopia (287, 31.5%) and Kenya (48, 5.3%).[28]

Adoptees from Africa by year:

Marriages and cohabitation

On 31 December 2020, there were 4,589 Finnish citizens who were either married to or registered as cohabiting with citizens of African countries. 2,809 (61.2%) of the Finnish citizens were women and 1,780 (38.8%) were men; for both sexes the largest groups of partners were Somalian, Moroccan and Nigerian citizens. The next largest groups for Finnish women were Gambian and Ghanaian citizens, and for Finnish men Ethiopian and Kenyan citizens.[29] [30] On the same date, there were 4,725 African-born people who were either married to or registered as cohabiting with people born in Finland; 3,718 (78.7%) of the people born in Finland were women, while 1,007 (21.3%) were men.[31] [32]

Afro-Finnish identity, culture and media

According to an estimate in 2009 by Yle, there are 20,000 Afro-Finns in Finland, and thus, they compose a much larger ethnic minority than many other prominent large minorities in Finland, such as the Sami or Romani. The identity of Afro-Finns varies; some consider themselves Finns, while others have their own separate identity. Some actively cherish their connections to Africa through their African relatives and cultures, while for others their connections to Africa are more distant but still relevant to them.

In 2013, the dance performance Noir? by became the first fully Afro-Finnish dance performance when it premiered at in Helsinki.[33] Held annually since 2018, the Afrofinns Achievement Awards—presented by Afrofinns ry, an organization for "Finns and everyone else with African heritage living in Finland"—acknowledges, honors and celebrates the contribution of the Afro-community in Finland.[34] [35] [36] [37] In 2020,, 2013 and celebrity, and Obi-West Utchaychukwu, the editor-in-chief of Diaspora Glitz Magazine, founded the beauty pageant The Face of African Queen for young women of African ancestry living in Finland.[38] [39]

Established in 1993, the magazine SCANDI-B was targeted to Black people in the Nordic countries. Printed in Raisio, Finland, it had a circulation of 7,000 in 1993 with as the editor-in-chief.[40] In 2010, Yle broadcast the three-episode documentary television series Afro-Suomen historia ("The history of Afro-Finland") about early Afro-Finns. The multimedia ("Brown Girls") focuses on Afro-Finns and other people of colour in Finland.[41] [42] [43] Its six-episode Afrosuomen historiaa etsimässä ("In search of history of Afro-Finland") podcast's first episode was broadcast on in 2017. The Afro-Finnish Diaspora Glitz Magazine won the category of Best Media at the 2019 Afrofinns Achievement Awards.[44]

Racism

See also: Racism in Finland. During the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland, some warned Finnish women against taking an interest in "exotic" athletes and pressured Finnish women to "act appropriately" within the vicinity of black people, "Finnish: neekerit". The Finnish word (cognate with negro) was long considered a neutral equivalent for "negro". In 2002, the usage notes of Finnish: neekeri shifted from "perceived as derogatory by some" to "generally derogatory" in the dictionary Kielitoimiston sanakirja, edited by the Institute for the Languages of Finland.[45]

Nationwide racism started to grow after the first Somali refugees arrived in Finland in the 1990s during the Somali Civil War. Finnish skinheads perpetrated attacks against Africans, and especially the city of Joensuu in eastern Finland grew to be . In the municipality of Nastola in southern Finland, the police had to protect the local refugee center from the violence of the locals, as they committed a shooting. Other incidents included a bomb that detonated in a refugee center in Valkeala, a municipality in southeast Finland, and an attack by skinheads against Somalis in Hakunila, Vantaa, in southern Finland.

In the late 20th century and the 21st century, some ethnic Finnish women married to or cohabiting with younger black men have faced discrimination as they are sometimes stereotyped as sex tourists in Finnish society.[46] [47] [48] [49] [50]

According to the study "Being Black in the EU" by the Fundamental Rights Agency published in 2018, 63% of Afro-Finns in Finland had experienced racist harassment, which had appeared as offensive gestures, comments, threats or violence. This was the highest percentage of the twelve European Union member states that were included in the study, much higher than for example in Malta which was 20%. 14% stated they had experienced violence in Finland due to their skin colour, which also was the highest of the participating countries, much higher than in, for example, Portugal where 2% had experienced similar violence.[51] [52]

A report published in 2020 by the found that four out of five people with an African background had experienced racial discrimination in Finland due to their skin colour.[53]

Notable people

Citizens and residents of Finland of full or partial African ancestry

See also categories: Finnish people of African ancestry, Expatriates in Finland (African country subcategories) and Immigrants to Finland (African country subcategories)

Actors

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  109. Web site: Cheekin kappaleella laulanut Yasmine Yamajako: "Puolet kommenteista liittyy ihonväriini" . . fi . 19 February 2020.
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  122. Web site: Veikkaus - yleisurheilu . . fi . 14 August 2020.
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  125. Web site: Mimosa Jallow on Suomen suuri uintilupaus – nostettiin 6-vuotiaana suoraan kilparyhmään . . 23 May 2015 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  126. Web site: Rachel Kauppila suuttui neekerinimittelystä . . 16 January 2008 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  127. Web site: Yksinhuoltaja Minna, 48, teki neljää työtä maksaakseen poikiensa jääkiekkoharrastuksen – liigadebyytti sai äidin kyyneliin . Marttinen . Mikko . 15 January 2019 . . fi . 5 February 2021.
  128. Web site: Markus on se vilkkaampi Oden – "Isoveljeen vertaaminen tuntuu välillä kiusalliselta" . Ranta . Timo . 27 February 2020 . . fi . 5 February 2021.
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  130. Web site: Finland's Refugees of the Year 2019 are Rand Mohamad Deeb and Nourdeen Toure . 3 May 2019 . . 5 February 2021.
  131. Web site: Liian lyhyt koripalloilijaksi, sanoi isä – Sara Bejedi lähtee Yhdysvaltoihin opiskelemaan ja tavoittelemaan korisammattilaisen uraa . 17 March 2019 . . fi . 1 July 2020.
  132. Web site: Sara Bejedi . . fi . 1 July 2020.
  133. Web site: SARA BEJEDI basketball profile . . 1 July 2020.
  134. Web site: Kwamena Brace . https://web.archive.org/web/20170321060317/http://www.media-match.com/uk/music/cv/KwamenaBrace?pdf=1 . 21 March 2017 . Media Match . 19 February 2020.
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  136. Web site: Awak Kuier lähtee PeKasta kesken kauden – "Ihan puskista tämä tuli" . . 29 November 2017 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  137. Web site: 194-senttisen suomalaisen teinitytön temppu hätkäytti NBA-leirillä – valmentaja: "Häntä yritetään repiä joka paikkaan" . . 20 February 2017 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  138. Web site: "Jonain päivänä hän voi olla maailman paras" – Awak Kuier, 17, on Suomen koripallon suurlupaus, jota voi helposti verrata Lauri Markkaseen . 4 October 2018 . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  139. Web site: Michaela Moua . Walter ry . fi . 19 February 2020.
  140. Web site: Maurizio Pratesi . Walter ry . fi . 19 February 2020.
  141. Web site: Ablade, Seth . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  142. Web site: Nouseva jalkapallotähti tekee räppiä - levy tulossa! . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  143. Web site: Christian Aniche Izuchukwu . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  144. Web site: C. Aniche . Soccerway . 19 February 2020.
  145. Web site: 37. Izuchukwu Aniche . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  146. Web site: "Minua on vaikea lokeroida" . Virtanen . Ari . 13 June 2020 . . fi . 7 June 2021.
  147. Web site: Ilves-muistojen aarrearkusta: Tämä afrikkalainen valloitti Tampereen jo ennen taikuri Tendengiä . 22 July 2016 . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  148. Web site: #21 Gatambiye Ngarura, Fabrice . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  149. Web site: Meistä tulee ammattilaisia . . 20 August 2015 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  150. Web site: Huuhkajien Niko Hämäläinen on nähnyt karun todellisuuden USA:ssa – äiti kertoi jo lapsuudessa, kuinka toimia jos poliisit pysäyttävät . 2 September 2020 . . fi . 7 October 2020.
  151. Web site: Segun Ikudehinbu . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  152. Web site: Ikudehinbu, Segun . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  153. Web site: Arsenalin Kamara sitoutui Suomen paitaan . . 5 November 2012 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  154. Web site: Interin hyökkääjä debytoi liigassa vanhaa seuraansa vastaan . . 19 April 2015 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  155. Web site: Kévin Kouassivi-Bénissan, Togolais de naissance, international Finlandais des U17 d'adoption . S. . Pacôme . 15 August 2016 . Télégramme228 . fr . 5 February 2021.
  156. News: Helsingin Sanomat . 3 April 2022 . 27 October 2018.
  157. Web site: Nuori maalivahtilupaus SJK:n riveihin . December 2019 . . fi . 7 October 2020.
  158. Web site: Atlantis jatkosopimukseen Nnajioforin kanssa . Kymppipaikka . fi . 19 February 2020.
  159. Web site: K. Nnajiofor . Soccerway . 19 February 2020.
  160. Web site: Okodugha, Ekhiabhi Sunday . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  161. Web site: Ekhiabhi Sunday Okodugha . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  162. Web site: Interview: Steve Pollack Q&A . Ghanasoccernet . 19 February 2020.
  163. Web site: Former Asante Kotoko coach among four shortlisted for Gor Mahia job . . 19 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124633/https://www.nation.co.ke/sports/football/Polack-four-shortlisted-Gor-Mahia-coaching-job/1102-4878570-ydw2c7z/ . 9 February 2019.
  164. Web site: Maahanmuuttajat jalkapallon huipulla . Selkosanomat . fi . 19 February 2020.
  165. Web site: Elämä kuin värikäs graffiti . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  166. Web site: Superliga: Viborg-AaB 1-2 . . 22 October 2000 . da . 19 February 2020.
  167. Web site: Kleber Saarenpaa . footballdatabase.eu . 19 February 2020.
  168. Web site: #80 Said Ahmed, Ahmed . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  169. Web site: M. Severino . Soccerway . 5 February 2021.
  170. Web site: MAURO SEVERINO . . fi . 5 February 2021 . 9 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201109073837/https://www.palloliitto.fi/pelaaja/141301 . dead .
  171. Web site: TPV:n nuori kärki Newcastlessa – kaksi ottelua, kaksi hattutemppua . . fi . 5 February 2021.
  172. Web site: AIK:s jättelöfte Robin Tihi valde med hjärtat och valet föll på mammas hemland – kan bli en riktig vinstlott för finländsk fotboll . 3 September 2020 . . sv . 7 October 2020.
  173. Web site: #14 Ugwunna, Chidozie . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  174. Web site: Vuoden pakolaisiksi valittiin perhetyöntekijä ja asiointitulkki – "Vieraslajeiksi kutsuminen suurin kunnianloukkaus" . 10 September 2020 . . fi . 5 February 2021.
  175. Web site: "Yksinhuoltajaäitinä voi pärjätä, oppia kielen, kasvattaa lapsia ja käydä töissä", toteaa vuoden pakolaisnainen Farhia Abdin – Kordnejad Ebrahimista vuoden pakolaismies . Nironen . Saija . 10 September 2020 . . fi . 5 February 2021.
  176. Web site: Jani Toivola . . 5 September 2008 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  177. Web site: BB-Akin äiti järkyttyi rasismista . . 26 September 2007 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  178. Web site: Ujuni, 30, tietää kokemuksesta, että suomalaistenkin tyttöjen sukuelimiä silvotaan: "Kyllä tyttöjä löytyisi, jos haluttaisiin löytää" . . fi . 1 July 2020.
  179. Web site: Yksikään tyttö ei saa lähteä Suomesta silvottavaksi, painottaa asiantuntija – "Riskiarvio pitää perustaa vain lapsen hyvinvointiin" . 25 November 2018 . . fi . 1 July 2020.
  180. Web site: Ympärileikkausraportin kirjoittaja Ujuni Ahmed pahastui Husu Husseinin kommentista: "kuulosti silpomisen kokeneiden vähättelyltä" . . fi . 1 July 2020.
  181. Web site: Sananvapauspalkittu Ujuni Ahmed: sukuelinten silpominen pitää kieltää Suomessa lailla . . 27 February 2020 . fi . 1 July 2020.
  182. Web site: "Meillä on KMA:n luuranko kaapissa, tai miksi sitä nyt haluaa kutsua, mutta siitä on jo niin kauan, ettei tunnu enää missään" – haastattelussa Lähiöbotox . . 14 September 2019 . fi . 14 August 2020.
  183. Web site: Supisuomalaiset-sarja sukeltaa kansakuntamme ytimeen – "Supisuomalainen voi olla minkä näköinen hyvänsä" . . 2 February 2018 . fi . 14 August 2020.
  184. Web site: Amran Mohamed Ahmed (1954 -) . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  185. Web site: Kauppiaan rouva Minttu Kaulanen: "Ilman Sampon sekoiluja meillä ei olisi kasvavaa liikevaihtoa" . . 23 November 2017 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  186. Web site: "Meidän ei pitänyt muuttaa yhteen, ottaa asuntolainaa eikä tehdä lasta" . 14 February 2017 . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  187. Web site: Nimo . 20 August 2014 . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  188. Web site: Muslimibloggarilta hauska Suomi-video: Näihin asioihin törmää vain musta . . 27 August 2014 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  189. Web site: Espoolainen muslimibloggari Nytissä: Huivin riisuminen muutti kaiken . . fi . 19 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124505/https://www.lansivayla.fi/artikkeli/139833-espoolainen-muslimibloggari-nytissa-huivin-riisuminen-muutti-kaiken . 9 February 2019.
  190. Web site: Leyla . 10 September 2014 . . fi . 19 February 2020.
  191. Web site: Uusi BB-asukas Leyla: "Lopetin tatuointien laskemisen kymmenen jälkeen" . . 10 September 2014 . fi . 19 February 2020.
  192. Web site: Aktivisti Fatima Verwijnen toivoo, että George Floydin kuoleman aiheuttama keskustelu ei jää lyhyeksi ilmiöksi: "Me toivotaan, että tästä tulisi rasismin #metoo" . Kangas . Jaana . 3 June 2020 . . fi . 7 June 2021.
  193. Web site: Vihaajat vihaa . Körkkö . Hilla . 8 October 2020 . . fi . 7 June 2021.
  194. Web site: Kuka luulet olevasi, Fatima Verwijnen? . Ojanperä . Heta . 10 June 2020 . Groteski Magazine . fi . 7 June 2021.
  195. Web site: Monir och Zoran nya namn i TV-pucklaget . 14 October 1999 . . sv . 7 October 2020.
  196. Web site: Systrarna Kronlöf bryter tabun i ny serie . Allehanda . 22 April 2014 . sv . 14 August 2020.
  197. Web site: "Äldre feminister har plöjt vägen" . . 13 November 2015 . sv . 14 August 2020.
  198. News: Tukholma - valta, keskiaika ja ruotsalaisen hip hopin äiti . 14 September 2015 . . fi . 14 August 2020. Ja . Juontajat . Inkeri . Virpi . Farzin . Ramin .
  199. News: Jasmin ja Bianca Kronlöf: Suomalaisuus on osa kokonaisuutta . Sseruwagi . Jonathan . 21 March 2017 . . fi . 14 August 2020.
  200. Web site: At Home With Tyra Banks . 20 August 2015 . . 7 October 2020.
  201. Web site: International Metal Ladies . Femmezin Empire . 19 February 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200219202046/https://femmezin.com/international-metal-ladies/ . 19 February 2020.
  202. Web site: Dan O'Brien . May 2008 . FosterClub . 19 February 2020.
  203. Web site: Denzel Wells . . 7 October 2020.
  204. Web site: Denzel Wells . . 7 October 2020.
  205. Web site: Which "Top Model" Male Contestants Share an Ethnicity? . 29 December 2014 . . 7 October 2020.
  206. Web site: Sofia Bryant Wiki: Facts About Rising Star | Her Age, Birthday, Parents, Ethnicity! |website=Celebs Closeups |access-date=1 July 2020}}[63] ] (born 1955), American-born African-American actor and drummer[64]
    • (born 1964), half-Kenyan actor[65]
    • Pearl Hobson (1879–1919), American-born African-American actress, singer, dancer and cabaret artist in the Russian Empire
    • (born 1974), half-Chadian actress
    • (born 1988), half-Togolese actor[66]
    • (born 1987), half-Kenyan actor
    • (born 1972), half-Cameroonian actress
    • (born 1989), half-Nigerian actor
    • (born 1989), Ghanaian-born actress
    • , half-Ghanaian actress
    • , Costa Rican-born actress[67] [68]

    Artists

    • Sasha Huber (born 1975), Swiss-born artist of Haitian descent[69]
    • (born 1988), fashion designer of African-American descent[70] [71] [72] [73]
    • (1928–2021), American-born African-American visual artist and designer[74]

    Beauty pageant contestants

    • (born 1990), half-Moroccan 2010[75]
    • Sara Chafak (born 1990), half-Moroccan-Berber Miss Finland 2012
    • (born 1987), Congolese-born Miss Helsinki 2013 and celebrity[76] [77] [78]
    • Dana Mononen (born 1999/2000), half-Guadeloupean Miss World Finland 2019[79] [80]
    • Lola Odusoga (born 1977), half-Nigerian model, presenter and Miss Finland 1996

    Dancers

    • (born 1985), half-Cameroonian dancer and choreographer[81]
    • , Ethiopian-born dancer[82]

    Entrepreneurs

    • Soraya Bahgat, social entrepreneur of Egyptian descent
    • (born 1984), Emirati-born entrepreneur of Egyptian descent
    • (born 1974), Mozambican-born entrepreneur and director

    Film people

    • Khadar Ahmed (born 1981), Somalian-born screenwriter and film director
    • Jessie Chisi (born 1986/1987), Zambian-born film director and screenwriter[83] [84] [85]
    • (born 1956), Algerian-born documentary film director

    Journalists

    • , Ghanaian-born journalist
    • (born 1975), half-Ugandan journalist
    • (born 1983/1984), television journalist of African-American descent[86]
    • Minna Salami (born 1978), half-Nigerian journalist[87] [88]

    Musicians

    • (born 1991), half-Moroccan hip hop musician
    • (born 1973), Ethiopian-born drummer and percussionist
    • (born 1978), half-Senegalese singer and actor
    • Eric Bibb (born 1951), American-born African-American blues musician[89]
    • (born 1994), half-Nigerian hip hop musician[90] [91]
    • Eddie Boyd (1914–1994), American-born African-American blues pianist and singer
    • Daco Junior (born 1990), Angolan-born musician[92] [93]
    • Raymond Ebanks (born 1970), half-Jamaican musician
    • Michael Ekeghasi (born 1985), Nigerian-born singer-songwriter[94] [95]
    • Lee Gaines (1914–1987), American-born African-American jazz singer
    • (born 1987), Congolese-born rapper
    • (born 1988), singer and footballer of Nigerian descent[96] [97]
    • (born 1995), half-Tunisian DJ and hip hop musician
    • Juno (born 1987), half-Kenyan rapper
    • (born 1994), musician of Somalian descent
    • Noah Kin (born 1994), Norwegian-born half-Nigerian rapper
    • (born 1991/1992), rapper of Somalian descent[98]
    • (born 1953), Ghanaian-born musician and sex offender
    • Mad Ice (born 1980), Ugandan-born singer-songwriter
    • (born 1962), Senegalese-born musician
    • (born 1985), Liberian-born musician[99]
    • Rummy Nanji, Tanzanian-born singer known from the Finnish band [100]
    • James Nikander (born 1990), half-Tanzanian rapper, bodybuilder and Internet personality
    • (born late 1970s), Cuban-born musician[101]
    • OX (born 1975), half-Egyptian bass guitarist
    • (born 1992), rapper of Gambian descent[102] [103]
    • Pete Parkkonen (born 1990), singer of partial Martiniquais descent[104]
    • (born 1987), Congolese-born rapper[105]
    • (born 1990), Ethiopian-born rapper
    • Ismaila Sané (born 1956), Senegalese-born musician
    • Jackson Shuudifonya (born 1985), musician of Namibian descent, known from the Finnish band [106] [107]
    • T.L, half-Jamaican musician known from the Finnish band TCT[108]
    • (born 1950), Jamaican-born reggae musician
    • Tiahu, half-Jamaican musician known from the Finnish band TCT
    • (born 1990), Angolan-born rapper
    • , singer-songwriter of partial Martiniquais descent
    • Mirel Wagner (born 1987), Ethiopian-born singer-songwriter
    • Nicole Willis (born 1963), American-born African-American singer, songwriter and painter
    • Yasmine Yamajako (born 1990/1991), half-Beninese singer[109]
    • (born 1996), half-Ghanaian rapper[110] [111] [112] [113]

    Politicians

    Scientists

    • (born 1962), Tunisian-born professor
    • Kelsey Harrison (born 1933), Nigerian-born gynaecologist and researcher[119]
    • (born 1945), American-born African-American linguist and actor
    • (born 1958), Somalian-born physician and researcher[120]

    Sportspeople

    • (born 1999), half-Chadian long jumper and triple jumper[121] [122]
    • Amin Asikainen (born 1976), half-Moroccan boxer
    • Semir Ben-Amor (born 1982), half-Tunisian ice hockey player
    • Josef Boumedienne (born 1978), half-Algerian ice hockey player
    • (born 1996), South Sudanese-born long-distance runner
    • (born 1995), half-Moroccan sprinter[123]
    • Pierre Collura (born 1989), Malagasy-born sailor
    • Seppo Evwaraye (born 1982), half-Nigerian former player of American football[124]
    • Christopher Gibson (born 1992), half-Saint Lucian ice hockey goaltender
    • (born 1984), half-Algerian boxer
    • (born 1982), Cuban-born volleyball player
    • (born 1999), half-Nigerian ice hockey player
    • Mimosa Jallow (born 1994), half-Gambian swimmer[125]
    • (born 1981/1982), Ethiopian-born exercise instructor[126]
    • Francis Kirwa (born 1974), Kenyan-born long-distance runner
    • Wilson Kirwa (born 1974), Kenyan-born runner and writer
    • (born 1975), half-Nigerian sprinter
    • Billy Konchellah (born 1961), Kenyan-born middle-distance runner
    • (born 1986), Kenyan-born long-distance runner
    • Frantz Kruger (born 1975), White South African-born discus thrower
    • Matti Lamberg (born 1993), half-Moroccan-Berber ice hockey player
    • (born 1986), Cuban-born boxer
    • Faye Njie (born 1993), half-Gambian judoka
    • (born 1975), half-Nigerian karateka
    • (born 2000), ice hockey player of African-American descent[127] [128]
    • (born 2001), ice hockey player of African-American descent
    • (born 1985), Nigerian-born sprinter
    • Michael Quarshie (born 1979), half-Ghanaian player of American football
    • (born 1976), Kenyan-born long-distance runner
    • (born 1989), half-Algerian hammer thrower[129]
    • (born 1991), Togolese-born boxer and for 2019[130]
    • Frank Zoko Ble (born 1975), Ivorian-born murderer and former karateka
    Basketball players
    • Fiifi Aidoo (born 1996), Ghanaian-born basketball player
    • (born 1984), Ghanaian-born basketball player
    • (born 2000), basketball player of Cameroonian-Moroccan descent[131] [132] [133]
    • (born 1987), half-Ghanaian basketball player[134]
    • (born 1983), American-born African-American basketball player[135]
    • (born 1990), basketball player of African-American descent
    • Bernard Harris (born 1950), American-born African-American basketball coach and former basketball player
    • (born 1958), American-born African-American former basketball player
    • Shawn Hopkins (born 1995), basketball player of African-American descent
    • (born 1950), American-born African-American basketball coach and former basketball player
    • Shawn Huff (born 1984), basketball player of African-American descent
    • Pierre Jallow (born 1979), Gambian-born basketball player
    • (born 1957), American-born African-American basketball coach and former basketball player
    • Awak Kuier (born 2001), Egyptian-born basketball player of South Sudanese descent[136] [137] [138]
    • (born 1987), basketball player of African-American descent
    • (born 1952), American-born African-American entrepreneur and former basketball player
    • Gerald Lee Jr. (born 1987), basketball player of African-American descent
    • (born 1951), American-born African-American basketball coach and former basketball player
    • (born 1979), American-born African-American former basketball player
    • Jonathan Moore (born 1957), American-born African-American former basketball player
    • (born 1994), basketball player of African-American descent
    • Michaela Moua (born 1976), half-Ivorian former basketball player[139]
    • (born 1992), basketball player of African-American descent
    • (born 1984), basketball player of African-American descent
    • (born 1953), American-born African-American basketball coach and former basketball player
    • (born 1988), basketball player of African-American descent
    • (born 1975), half-Jamaican former basketball player[140]
    • Damon Williams (born 1973), American-born African-American basketball player
    • Jamar Wilson (born 1984), American-born African-American basketball player
    Footballers

    Writers

    • Ronald Fair (1932–2018), American-born African-American writer and sculptor
    • (born 1979), Somalian-born writer
    • (born 1974), half-Egyptian writer

    Others

    • Farhia Abdi (born 1972/1973), Somalian-born for 2020[174] [175]
    • (born 1982), Somalian-born activist
    • Aki Abiodun (born 1971), half-Nigerian contestant on the Finnish version of Big Brother and presenter[176] [177]
    • Ujuni Ahmed (born 1987), Somalian-born activist[178] [179] [180] [181]
    • François Bazaramba (born 1951), Rwandan-born criminal who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Finland for participating in the Rwandan genocide
    • Rosa Clay (1875–1959), half-Bantu teacher, choral conductor and theatre director from Ovamboland
    • (born 1993), media personality, YouTuber and musician of Somalian descent[182] [183]
    • (born 1974), Somalian-born murderer and sex offender
    • (born 1977), half-Chadian presenter
    • (born 1940), Moroccan-born circus performer
    • (born 1970), Kenyan-born project manager and Refugee Woman of the Year for 1999
    • Gibril Massaquoi (born 1970), Sierra Leonean-born detainee
    • Amran Mohamed Ahmed (born 1954), Somalian-born Refugee Woman of the Year for 2005[184]
    • (born 1974), Somalian-born Refugee Woman of the Year for 2011
    • Michele Murphy-Kaulanen (born 1980), celebrity of African-American descent and the wife of Sampo Kaulanen, a celebrity and the manager of Jounin Kauppa[185] [186]
    • (1903–1940), Latvian-born soldier of African ancestry
    • Nimo Samatar (born 1995), contestant on the Finnish version of Big Brother and blogger of Somalian descent[187] [188] [189]
    • (born 1992), Angolan-born media personality, YouTuber, presenter and musician
    • Steven Thomas (born 1961), American-born African-American sex offender
    • Leyla Väänänen (born 1992), half-Somalian contestant on the Finnish version of Big Brother[190] [191]
    • (born 1993/1994), half-Somalian human rights activist[192] [193] [194]

    People of the Finnish diaspora with African ancestry

    This list is for notable people of African ancestry who also belong to the Finnish diaspora (i.e. Finnish emigrants and their descendants) but do not hold Finnish citizenship. Many of them maintain their ties to Finland.

    Germany

    • Misan Haldin (born 1982), half-Nigerian former basketball player
    • (born 1984), half-Nigerian basketball player

    Sweden

    See also: Sweden Finns.

    United Kingdom

    United States

    See also: Finnish Americans.

    • Tyra Banks (born 1973), African-American television personality, model, producer, businesswoman, actress and author[200]
    • Drew Gooden (born 1981), African-American basketball player
    • Carla Harvey (born 1976), African-American singer[201]
    • Jillian Hervey (born 1989), African-American singer and dancer
    • Allan Mansoor (born 1964), half-Egyptian politician
    • Dan O'Brien (born 1966), African-American former decathlete and Olympic gold medalist[202]
    • Redfoo (born 1975), African-American musician
    • Denzel Wells (born 1990), African-American player of American football, actor and contestant on the season 21 of America's Next Top Model[203] [204] [205]
    • Chris Williams (born 1967), African-American actor
    • Vanessa Williams (born 1963), African-American singer, actress, fashion designer and Miss America 1984

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