Skin bleaching in Africa: An addiction with huge health risks

Sheila Dhulab has a facial done with skin lightening products for the first time at a hair salon in the Fordsburg suburb of Johannesburg on July 3, 2018. PHOTO | AFP

What you need to know:

  • She dismissed it as an urban myth. But it wasn’t long before she saw it with her own eyes.
  • At a health centre in Lagos, a mother brought in a two-month-old infant who was crying in pain.