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Lesson to African Women from South Sudan, BBC

Post by Mesob » 11 Jun 2025, 14:58

Do you know where the most expensive skin whitening creams and makeups are sold? It is the Arab world, followed by India and Africa? These creams made by white European corporations know very well about the insecurity and inferiority complex of these women. The big corporations sell them very expensive creams tainted with mercury, nickel and arsenic to bleach the skin of the rich ignoramus women of the Third world.
You see this trend also engulfing the poor Arab wannabe voluntarily enslaved Arabized Abids in Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Eritrea and Ethiopia...
Black African women need to learn a lesson or two from the South Sudanese women who have the perfect black skin colour that are filling the model ranks of the biggest European fashion houses.
See the BBC report below.


'They have perfect dark skin': The African nation home to fashion's favourite models
June 7, 2025 , BBC Wedaeli Chibelushi

Wearing an understated but chic outfit, flowing braids and a dewy, make-up free face, Arop Akol looks like your typical off-duty model.

She sinks into the sofa at the offices of her UK agency, First Model Management, and details the burgeoning career that has seen her walk runways for luxury brands in London and Paris.

"I had been watching modelling online since I was a child at the age of 11," Akol, now in her early twenties, tells the BBC.

In the last three years, she has been streamed across the world while modelling, even sharing a runway with Naomi Campbell at an Off-White show.

Travelling for work can get lonely, but Akol is constantly bumping into models from her birth country - the lush, but troubled South Sudan.

"South Sudanese people have become very well known for their beauty," says Akol, who has high cheekbones, rich, dark skin and stands 5ft 10in tall.....


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cre99ldr515o

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