Fifty shades of African lightness: a bio-psychosocial review of the global phenomenon of skin lightening practices

Submitted: 5 May 2016
Accepted: 30 November 2016
Published: 31 December 2016
Accepted: 30 November 2016
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Funding for the research was obtained from internal institutional grants to LMD (University of Cape Town, internal fund #436353)Jacobs, M., Levine, S., Abney, K., & Davids, L. (2016). Fifty shades of African lightness: a bio-psychosocial review of the global phenomenon of skin lightening practices. Journal of Public Health in Africa, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/jphia.2016.552