Skin-lightening products are being removed from shop shelves in Rwanda following a government ban. The creams and soaps, whose sales in Africa are worth billions every year, were banned on November ...

A study has found that many African women may unconsciously prefer lighter skin, far more than they report, highlighting that skin bleaching is driven by complex social, historical, and psychological ...

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 ...

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako, has issued a clarion call for African nations to collaborate in tackling the widespread use of harmful ...