"Even though my hands are discoloured, I am here to buy creams for my kids so they can be light-skinned. I believe my hands ...

Doctors who first saw her said it looked as if she had first-degree burns. The first time Anderson used a skin whitening ...

The first time Anderson used a skin whitening cream she was 12. Her stepmother gave it to her but didn't tell her what it was for. "She never explained it to me," she says. "I just felt it was a ...

I visited a popular market in Kano, where people who call themselves "mixologists" create skin-whitening creams from scratch. The market has a whole row of shops where thousands of these creams ...