SKIN BLEACHING IN NIGERIA | BBC news on colourism in Africa | TALKSWITHTANYA
SKIN BLEACHING IN NIGERIA | BBC news on colourism in Africa | TALKSWITHTANYA
In this reaction video, I break down a shocking BBC News headline about a Nigerian mother who bleached her 2-year-old child’s skin. I explore how this disturbing case reflects deep-rooted issues in society, including colonial legacies, colorism, and harmful beauty standards in Africa. Join me as I react to the news and discuss why skin…
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Thank you for this video, I’m worried for my daughter as she gets older, society is so hard on black girls/woman. My daughter is Jamaican and Nigerian. Both of these countries use bleaching creams Heavily 😫💔
I’m a skin bleacher , my advice should be to promix yourself , don’t let the seller mix serums , gels , oils for you. Many people got huge stretch marks because they let someone promix for them.
For babies and children , mother use organic products (Fair & White , Françoise Bedon, Nano Kojic Potion) , but i think is a preferable option in comparison with hijab on very young girls.
Nigeria is a colorist country , and it has nothing to do with colonialism, they want look lighter , it’s their cultural beauty standards , you must respect it.
Bleaching is not lost on the men, am in my early thirties now and I see some dark skin men being unhappy when their kids with the prized light skin girl they wanted come out as dark as them.
I look at the social media stats in my country and the most followed girls in the genZ bracket are light skinned girls whose content isn't anything other than them simply existing so it will be a while before we eradicate colourism.
Skin bleaching has become such a huge trend that every lotion brand now has products to lighten you, asian supermarkets are popping up on every corner with half their stock being skin bleaching soap, lotions, creams, tablets etc it seemed wierd at first but now it's normal coz there are so many, I grew up with there being a stigma around bleaching after the ladies in our mothers' generations had scary veins protruding from their thinned out skins but the wheel of fashion turned and clicked in with the age of social media influencer and brought beaching back as a trend with no one caring about consequences smh 🙌🏾
That's insane. I never would have thought that skin bleaching is popular anywhere in Africa.
My love, I don’t know if it’s my tv but you are very hard to hear in this video, I had to turn off my fan.
I know this topic isn’t for me but in my country, Mexico, there are a lot of people who also think if they marry someone white it would help their kids. (Like in girlfriends) we have a lot of colorism also and it always is worse for women.
'Baby-bleaching cream' ???!!! Chineke ohh