This author described how society forces people to grow up to “silence themselves” and “[turn] pretense into an art form” in a work discussing the title group’s “negative baggage.” An essay by this author begins by mentioning a childhood friend who died in a plane crash and described the author as a certain word pejoratively. In another work, this author related writing characters who drank ginger beer despite not knowing what ginger beer was. This author mentioned John Lok’s description of (*) “beasts with no houses” while recounting a college student’s assumption that she couldn’t use a stove. Beyoncé’s “Flawless” sampled this author’s description of a person who believes in the equality of the sexes from her talk “We Should All Be Feminists.” For 10 points, name this Nigerian author of the TED Talk “The Danger of a Single Story” and the novel Americanah. ■END■
ANSWER: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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