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Seems it is not limited to just Jamaican artists...See the video and the article below...
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Kwaito Singer Mshoza’s Lighter Shade and the Politics of Skin Bleaching in Africa
by: Luso Mnthali:
Source: Afropop.com
It was bound to happen.
We seem to be a carbon copy, if not an unreasonable facsimile, of that the land of the free and home of the brave. South African Kwaito artist Mshoza is only doing very publicly what a number of Africans have been doing to themselves for years under what they believed to be the veil of secrecy. Skin bleaching was once such a problem in South African the government banned the bleaching agent hydroquinone, which makes you ‘light and bright.’
In fact hydroquinone was linked as a possible carcinogen according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is also proposing a ban on any products containing the chemical.
Okay now that we’ve done the public service announcement, what on earth is Mshoza thinking?
This week she appeared on the popular South African talk show Motswako to declare her “passion to be white”. The horrified interviewer, Penny Lebyane, later said “Yes I was angry, Yes I took it personal! Yes I even wanted to shake her so I can get her to realize what she’s doing to herself!”
Read the rest here at Afropop.com
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Kwaito Singer Mshoza’s Lighter Shade and the Politics of Skin Bleaching in Africa
by: Luso Mnthali:
Source: Afropop.com
It was bound to happen.
We seem to be a carbon copy, if not an unreasonable facsimile, of that the land of the free and home of the brave. South African Kwaito artist Mshoza is only doing very publicly what a number of Africans have been doing to themselves for years under what they believed to be the veil of secrecy. Skin bleaching was once such a problem in South African the government banned the bleaching agent hydroquinone, which makes you ‘light and bright.’
In fact hydroquinone was linked as a possible carcinogen according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is also proposing a ban on any products containing the chemical.
Okay now that we’ve done the public service announcement, what on earth is Mshoza thinking?
This week she appeared on the popular South African talk show Motswako to declare her “passion to be white”. The horrified interviewer, Penny Lebyane, later said “Yes I was angry, Yes I took it personal! Yes I even wanted to shake her so I can get her to realize what she’s doing to herself!”
Read the rest here at Afropop.com
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