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Nigeria’s 'Melanin Movement' Swims Against a Skin-Whitening Tide

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In Nigeria, nearly 77 percent of women use skin-lightening products, making the world’s most populous country of black people the biggest market for whitening skin. But darker-skinned Nigerians are beginning to push back against the lightening tide with the so-called “Melanin Movement.” Timothy Obiezu reports for VOA from Abuja.

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