August 9, 2018 | Lifestyle.INQ

Skin bleaching in Africa: A factfile

Skin bleaching, or lightening, has become popular in many African countries. Here’s a factfile.

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Elizabeth Kobiti, a beauty salon owner, mixes a skin lightening cream on July 13, 2018, in Lagos. Africa is experiencing a massive trend of skin bleaching, also called lightening or whitening, particularly in teenagers and young adults. In Nigeria, 77 per cent of women (more than 60 million people) are using lightening products on a "regular basis", the World Health Organization (WHO) said in 2011. The skin lightening industry has globally grown into a billion dollar industry yet in some places like Africa the practice is still seen as highly controversial, largely unregulated and littered with misconceptions. / AFP PHOTO / STEFAN HEUNIS

Skin bleaching in Africa: An ‘addiction’ with risks

Africa is experiencing a “massive trend of increased use (of skin bleaching), particularly in teenagers and young adults,” said Lester Davids, a physiology professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.