The global skin-lightening industry generates billions of dollars annually by exploiting insecurities rooted in centuries of colonial conditioning, creating a toxic legacy of skin bleaching that ...
Susan Anderson, age 52, sits in the corner of a sunlit waiting room at a dermatology clinic in Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Dark patches of skin, dotted with brighter pigments, surround her eyes and ...
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Why are people still bleaching their skin in 2026?
RECENTLY, the Nigerian Association of Dermatologists (NAD) launched a nationwide campaign to address growing public health concerns about skin bleaching in the country. The association unveiled the ...
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Scholar links skin bleaching to childhood trauma
A Performance Studies PhD candidate at Northwestern University in the United States, Olabanke Goriola, has said skin bleaching among Nigerian women is driven by childhood conditioning that equates ...
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