Meet The Igbo Man Who Became The First Elected Black Senator In Italy

Toni Chike Iwobi who is an Igbo man by descent but an Italian by nationality has become the first black man to be elected into the senate in Italy.

He was born on 26th April 1955 in Gusau Damaturu State in northern Nigeria. Later on, in life he moved to Italy to study in 1976.

He was born by Nigerian Igbo parents and he had about 10 siblings and attended primary and secondary schools in Nigeria before moving to Europe.

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He studied Accounting in Italy, studied marketing in Manchester England and studied computer science in the U.S.A.

 

As an Igbo man, he didn’t go to Italy and became docile but he allowed his hustling Igbo spirit to control him, he started a company and got into active politics and joined a political party called Lega Nord

In the early 2000s, he founded his own data communication company which was registered as “Data Communication Labs Ltd”

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In 1993 he got elected as a municipal councilor for his party Lega Nord. In 2018 Italian’s general election he got elected as a senator making him the very first black person to take a seat in the Italian senate.

He was the chief immigration spokesman for the far-right League party, before being elected as the country’s first black senator.

He is married to an Italian woman and has two children

 

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