{"id":10820,"date":"2021-09-13T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=10820"},"modified":"2021-10-04T16:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:56:58","slug":"angela-merkel-and-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=10820","title":{"rendered":"Angela Merkel and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the previous post<\/a> – in Dresden with a Baroque master one day and the evening prior in D\u00fcsseldorf with a contemporary literary superstar. As I suggested: some of the perks of higher office!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I post, I haven’t as yet seen this video, but the event has been well reported upon in Germany and I hear tell it was a successful meeting of two outwardly very different women – of different generations and heritage – but both of whom during the last decade or so have found (international) fame and influence, and a search for (and finding of) commonality that included, beyond their respective crafts of State and art, a quiet and personal discussion on grief springing from Adichie’s essay (now book) that I have previously<\/a> discussed <\/a>and an open and sincere invitation from Adichie for the soon to be ex-Bundeskanzlerin to visit Nigeria, that is, with all the freedoms and interests of the private person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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