Antonella Bundu

Antonella Moro Bundu (born 4 December 1969 in Florence) is an Italian activist. In 2019 she was a candidate to be Mayor of Florence, making her the first black woman to run for mayor of a major Italian city.[1]

At present, she is city council member, leading the left opposition "Sinistra Progetto Comune" group.

Life

Antonella Bundu was born in Florence in 1969,[2] the daughter of a Florentine mother and a Sierra Leonean father. In the late 1980s she studied in Liverpool, which she recalls as a "politically charged city" after the Toxteth riots: "I was studying black history in the city's libraries, and participated actively in the neightbourhood's protests."[3]

An ex-DJ and activist for Oxfam, Bundu was one of the first on the scene at the 2018 Florence shooting of the Senegalese immigrant Idy Diene. She took part in the anti-racist protests which followed his death, and after making a speech at the Alfieri Theatre was invited to run for mayor on behalf of a radical-left coalition including Power to the People and the Communist Refoundation Party.[3] In the 2019 Mayoral election, she received 14,016 votes (7.29%).[4]

References
  1. Sophie Gorman, Antonella Bundu: The first black woman to run for mayor of a major Italian city, France 24, 26 June 2019.
  2. Sono Antonella Bundu: una donna nera, fiorentina e di sinistra
  3. Lorenzo Tondo, Resisting the right: the woman who is a beacon of hope in Salvini's Italy, The Guardian, 19 April 2019. Accessed 24 July 2020.
  4. Dettaglio scrutini
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