Characters from the heart of Norway accompanied by an African (7)
I believe the answer is:
rwandan
'african' is the definition.
(Rwanda is an African country)
'characters from the heart of norway accompanied by an' is the wordplay.
'characters from' becomes 'and' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'the heart of' indicates the central letters.
'accompanied by' says to put letters next to each other.
The centre of 'norway' is 'rw'.
'and' after 'rw' is 'rwand'.
'rwand'+'an'='RWANDAN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rwandan that I've seen before include "From a central African country" , "African chap" , "Kigali native, perhaps" , "African native" , "Eg, a native of Kigali" .)