David Nilsson, “Sweden-Norway at the Berlin conference,
1884-1885”, 54pp., Current African Issues
53, Nordiska Afrikaanstitutet, Uppsalla, 2013 (http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?lang=en&id=175724, accessed 12 May 2014)
“What [i]s ... presented in this paper is arguably incongruent with the common perception
that Sweden lacks a colonial history. Sweden did not acquire territories in
Africa after the Berlin conference, but through the Berlin and Brussels
agreements of 1885, King Oscar II and Baron Gillis Bildt enabled Sweden-Norway
to get ‘a piece of the African cake’ (as King Leopold once put it) even without
de facto colonisation.” – David Nilsson, “Sweden-Norway at the Berlin conference, 1884-1885”, p. 32 (added emphasis).
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