by Benson Agoha | Celebrity
Time, the Media giant that publishes TIME Magazine has announced it's TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR and it is no other person than German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
In winning the nomination, she made history as the first woman so to do after a 29 years. She beat several other nominees to like Donald Trump, who has just called for America to ban Muslims from entering the US; ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; Russian President Vladimir Putin and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.to win it, according to a report by Time's Nancy Gibbs.
Gibbs praised the German Leader, whom she said was a refugee from a time and place that would have been unthinkable, for not having a political style, and said her politics lacked flair, has no flourishes and no charisma, maintaining only a survivor's sharp sense of power and a scientists devotion to data.
Gibbs said: "Europe’s most powerful leader is a refugee from a time and place where her power would have been unimaginable," begins the profile of Merkel. "The shy daughter of a Lutheran minister, Merkel slipped into politics as a divorced Protestant in a largely Catholic party, a woman in a frat house, an Ossi in the newly unified Germany of the 1990s where easterners were still aliens. No other major Western leader grew up in a stockade, which gave Merkel a rare perspective on the lure of freedom and the risks people will take to taste it."
The TIME reviewer described her as resolutely dull, lending her to being underestimated by others.
The Short List Included:
Merkel is the first woman to receive the Person of the Year award as as individual since Corazon Aquino, the first woman president of the Philippines, graced the cover in 1986, according to Mashable.
Watch the review video [ here ].
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