The Vanishing Black African Woman: A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice (Volume Two)

written by Yetunde Mercy Olumide

A Compendium of the Global Skin-Lightening Practice

Skin-lightening is currently one of the most common forms of potentially harmful body modification practices in the world and African women are among some of the most widely represented users of skin-lightening products. The overall objective of this book is to provide up-to-date evidence-based recommendations for reducing the global burden of cosmetic skin bleaching and preventing injuries related to skin bleaching in sub-Saharan Africa and Africans in diaspora.

The book aims to: offer an appraisal of all relevant literature on cosmetic bleaching practices to-date, focusing on any key developments; identify and address important medical, public health issues as well as historical, genetic, psychosocial, cultural, behavioural, socioeconomic, political, institutional and environmental determinants; provide guideline recommendations that would help attenuate the burden and possibly eliminate the injuries related to skin bleaching; discuss potential developments and future directions.

Yetunde Mercy Olumide

Yetunde Mercy Olumide is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine of the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and a Consultant Physician, Dermatologist and Venereologist. She is a member of a collaborative interdisciplinary and transnational research team on the skin bleaching culture in Sub-Saharan Africa.