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Topman7: 11:28pm On Mar 24
WHO WILL EDUCATE YOU AFRICANS OUT OF THIS COLONIAL-INDUCED BRAINWASHING AND SELF HATRED?

How can the same race of men and women, GOD'S FIRST CREATED PEOPLE, who gave the world the PYRAMIDS OF SUDAN AND EGYPT, THE PHARAOHS, MATHEMATICS, WRITING, ARCHITECTURE, IRON SMELTING, MINING OF MINERALS, LAW, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, THE SCIENCES AND THE ARTS THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE WHITE PEOPLE EXISTED ON THIS EARTH, BE SO BRAINWASHED AND CONDITIONED TODAY THAT THEY REJECT THEIR VERY SKIN COLOUR?

THIS IS JUST TRAGIC AND SHAMEFUL.

AND GUESS which country is the WORST in this bleaching madness?

Do you need to guess?

Your useless 'GIANT' nation of white worshiping slaves?

How disgusting.

To the point that even the British who brainwashed you are reporting the news with alarm?

You Africans, especially NIGERIANS, are a total embarrassment.

Sometimes I wish we had a powerful MILITARY DICTATORSHIP that will BAN all these wretched bleaching creams and JAIL anybody caught with such things, after several lashes of koboko.

And also BAN this nasty Brazilian dog hair these women wear.

And BAN THE NASTY ENGLISH WIGS OUR STUPID LAWYERS AND JUDGES WEAR WITH NO SHAME.

Until you Africans cure your colonial inferiority complex and self hatred, you would get NOWHERE in this world. And you will continue to be the objects of ridicule and shame all over the world. Because the world can never EVER value you if you don't value yourselves.


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'I scarred my six children by using skin-lightening creams'

[i]BBC News, Kano

A mother in northern Nigeria is visibly upset as she clutches her two-year-old child, who has burns and discoloured skin on his face and legs.

The 32-year-old used skin-whitening products on all six of her children, under pressure from her family, with results that she now deeply regrets.


Fatima, whose name has been changed to protect her family's identity, says one of her daughters covers her face whenever she goes out in order to hide her burns.




An animal mixing bleaching creams in the market




Another was left with darker skin than before - with a pale circle around her eyes, while a third has whitish scars on her lips and knees.

Her toddler still has weeping wounds - his skin is taking a long time to heal.

"My sister gave birth to light-skinned children but my children are darker skinned. I noticed that my mother favours my sister's children over mine due to their skin tone and it hurt my feelings a lot," Fatima says.

She says she used creams she bought at her local supermarket in the city of Kano, without a doctor's prescription.
At first it seemed to work. The grandmother warmed towards Fatima's children, who were aged between two and 16 at the time.

But then the burns and scars appeared.

Skin-whitening or lightening, also known as bleaching in Nigeria, is used in different parts of the world for cosmetic reasons, though these often have deep cultural roots.

Women in Nigeria use skin-whitening products more than in any other African country - 77% use them regularly, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).

In Congo-Brazzaville the figure is 66%, in Senegal 50% and in Ghana 39%.

The creams may contain corticosteroids or hydroquinone, which can be harmful if used in high quantities, and in many countries are only obtainable with a doctor's prescription.

Other ingredients sometimes used are the poisonous metal, mercury, and kojic acid - a by-product from the manufacture of the Japanese alcoholic drink, sake.

Dermatitis, acne and skin discolouration are possible consequences, but also inflammatory disorders, mercury poisoning and kidney damage.

The skin may become thinner, with the result that wounds take longer to heal, and are more likely to become infected, the WHO says.

''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 are sold.

Some pre-mixed varieties are arranged on shelves, but customers can also select raw ingredients and ask for the cream to be mixed in front of them.

I noticed that many bleaching creams, with labels saying they were for babies, contained regulated substances.

Other sellers itted using regulated ingredients such as kojic acid, hydroquinone and a powerful antioxidant, glutathione, which may cause rashes and other side-effects.

I also witnessed teenage girls buying bleaching creams for themselves and in bulk so that they could sell them to their peers....''

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj92g4n3v78o

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Exceed15: 7:16am On Mar 25
Child Abuse. Such mothers should be prosecuted and jailed.

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ugwumichael(m): 7:16am On Mar 25
Inferiority complex

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stunnert(m): 7:28am On Mar 25
What in the bloody fvck is wrong with these people.

In saner climes, child services and the government will take the children from her. She's a potential hazard to them kids

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Hellonearth: 7:59am On Mar 25
Na YERIBAS NAH

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Gandollar(f): 8:07am On Mar 25
It's an unfortunate situation really.

Even when you think educated mothers would know better, but for where.

You see a year old baby with skin looking like that of 80yr old woman.

The law should start prosecuting such moms otherwise, they won't stop.

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Shalommy(f): 8:18am On Mar 25
Wetin abokiiii sabi....? cheesy cheesy😄 Chaiiii

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dettolgel: 12:49pm On Mar 25
Psychological test should be made compulsory before being allowed to give birth.

Some mothers and fathers are not even qualified to care a dosmetic house cat let alone children.

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Eraddray(m): 12:49pm On Mar 25
angry Gen Z parents
Mitsurugi(m): 12:51pm On Mar 25
Ude 😂😂😂
id4sho(m): 12:51pm On Mar 25
Gen Z mothers
emmanuel596(m): 12:52pm On Mar 25
I hate bleachers

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CrownedPhoenix: 12:52pm On Mar 25
They just won't let kids be kids.

Just what does a child know about beauty that'll need bleaching? Sometimes, you see kids in primary with dark knuckles, knee caps and ankles way blacker than should be.

Just ridiculous.

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Antoeni(m): 12:52pm On Mar 25
No Comment

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Proudlyngwa(m): 12:53pm On Mar 25
Typing:
Tinubu's South West grin

This is more popular among Etche men

Nothing can separate Thier love for Tura soap

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saddler: 12:53pm On Mar 25
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4tomandchi: 12:54pm On Mar 25
I in one of my courses at the university Prof. Mabel use to describe people with this tendency as people living with disability. They feel they are inadequate in their color and must make up for it.

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DeltaBachelor(m): 12:54pm On Mar 25
grin
Jamiubond009(m): 12:54pm On Mar 25
grin
Wealthoptulent(m): 12:54pm On Mar 25
ok e good
awon ORGANIC ambassadors

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Jamiubond009(m): 12:54pm On Mar 25
Makunahatata: 12:55pm On Mar 25
Osiris12:
Yoruba women are most guilty of this crime
na Yoruba go kill u...every small thing, Yoruba ...won sepe fun yin ni?

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BeeNG3: 12:57pm On Mar 25
Nairaland wats up. Which kain news b dis

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BlackPantherxXx: 12:57pm On Mar 25
Typing:
Tinubu's South West grin

Hausa man .. didn't you read ? The article said "Northern woman"

No matter your tears, Atiku didn't win and Tinubu will rule for 8 years.

You can the igbos you insulted for years here grin

E pain am

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BlackPantherxXx: 12:57pm On Mar 25
Okay ooo
Negroic9(m): 1:01pm On Mar 25
Maybe Nigerian ladies use inferior products
But north African ladies bleach most,in some countries in north Africa you must be White before assigned official post as a lady
FreeStuffsNG: 1:02pm On Mar 25
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Ignorance is not bliss. It is obvious that you are not educated or poorly educated with poor upbringing.

That's a skin disorder disease you are using to body shame the victim. I will not tell you the name.

id4sho:
Gen Z mothers
She's not bleaching her children. She is trying to treat their skin disorders and it is the side effects of the steroids in the cream that you are seeing so. It's a desperate mother resorting to self help her children. It's not usually non-reversible after they stop using the cream and get professional care.

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Ibehchizzy: 1:03pm On Mar 25
Youruba people both their men and women
Are guilty of this

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Dpaulie(m): 1:04pm On Mar 25
Exceed15:
Child Abuse. Such mothers should be prosecuted and jailed.
Who will be taking care of the children while their mother was jailed

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