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“Say no to skin bleaching and skin toning”, says Ama K Abebrese

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  • peeeeeee 10 years ago

    Fuck them.educating ignorant African ADULTS is frustrating.they wil still do it in their bathrooms.think and maintain your sanity

  • OZA 10 years ago

    Our Ghanaian mentality, cultivated from the colonial rule of the white man is the origin of all this silly behavior about skin bleaching. This silliness is even impregnated in our culture where we call your darling "me broni" ...
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  • Village Food 10 years ago

    OZA u are not far from the truth at all.

  • OZA 10 years ago

    Ama is not being totally honest. Look at her. Is that how an African woman's wears her natural hair? They all think long stretched hair like that of the white woman is the best. You see, African men don't do that, except, of ...
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  • I had to say it! 10 years ago

    please, lets not turn it to a war between black women and black men.
    Women worldwide present themselves based on the best mode that attracts their menfolk. If the black woman is designing herself to look like a white or col ...
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  • oluwele 10 years ago

    oza, ama is not talking about hair, she is talking about skin bleaching!thank U,

  • NII COMMEY 10 years ago

    BLEACHING HAS BOTH PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL NEGATIVE EFFECTS. THANK YOU FOR RAISING AWARENESS. PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT FAKE HAIR THOUGH. LOVE YA

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    BLEACHING..NO NO NO...
    TONING IS LIKE CLEANING YOUR WHITE BASKETBALL SNEAKERS, SHINNING UR SHOES ETC. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TONING AND BLEACHING.

    BLEACHING, HAIR WEAVES, SMELLS A WOMEN WHO BLEACHES, WEARS WEAVES I ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    I knew GHFUO shares AMBI and ROBERTS soaps with his wife or girlfriends. What a shame!

    You may be wearing wig also over you bald head.

  • Ghfuo, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    Yes, u are right. I do that with jr moda and sisters.

  • POW@Ghana 4 last 4, Brazil 2014 10 years ago

    Yes skin toning is good, not a bad idea at all especially for those with skin blemishes.

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    I DESPISE BLACK WOMEN WHO ALWAYS WEAR BRAZILIAN,INDIAN WEAVES. U SEE A BROAD WITH WEAVE AND 9 OUT OF 10 TIMES. U CAN TELL THAT HER MIND-STATE IS ALSO CORRUPTED AS WELL.

    THERE IS NOTHING WRING WITH TONING. BUT BLEACHING YOU ...
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  • POW@Ghana 4 last 4, Brazil 2014 10 years ago

    Girl, don't you tone your skin? Look at your face, was it this smooth before? If you have a problem with bleaching fine but campaigning against skin toning that's weird for a woman. How do you clear the blemishes on your skin ...
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  • peeeeeee 10 years ago

    BTW every woman maintains or tones

  • BLACKMAN 10 years ago

    WELL DONE AMMA,WE WANT TO SEE REAL AFRICAN WOMEN GIVING GLORY TO THEIR CREATOR,NOT WHITE AFRICAN WOMEN WHO WILL NEVER BECOME WHITE IN THEIR INFERIORITY MENTALITY.SHAME UNTO THE BLEACHERS!

  • M. Dandey. C/Coast 10 years ago

    I am solidly behind you and thank you so much Sis. Ama for launching this campaign. May God bless and guide you to achieve this objective.

  • WORST ECONOMY 10 years ago

    SKIN BLEACHING STINKS AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW THE REASON WHY SOME MEN DO ALLOW THAT NASTY SHIT IN BED . SORRY LADIES - NOT ME .

  • COCONUTHEAD 10 years ago

    As an African, I have always loved and admired women who are dark. To me the darker, the better.

    The ignorant ones who bleach do not know the health risks involved. When you removed the top layer of your skin, there is n ...
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  • Riga 10 years ago

    How about aging gracefully Ama and feeling proud in it too than photoshopping and airbrushing your face and forgetting your arms and fingers! ( look at ur pic well). The pot calling the kettle black. One way or the other, u ...
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  • Village Food 10 years ago

    Riga u are very observant,also we want natural hair and not fake Brazilian hair.

  • MR TEXAS COWBOY 10 years ago

    HOW CAN YOU COMPARE BREACHING AND FAKE HAIR THAT IT DOESN'T HARM ANYTHING ? REMEMEBER SKIN CANCER

  • MUHAMMAD KAAMIL. 10 years ago

    Say no to skin bleaching okay.what about wigs weaves.prostitution.and half naked dress???.we ask Allaah for safety and well-being.

  • Village Food 10 years ago

    MUHAMMAD KAAMIL i agree with u %100

  • Akweley 10 years ago

    Nigerians are the worst among other Blacks. Bleaching is part of their culture because they hate dark skin. According to World Health Organization, Nigerians lead in skin bleaching in the world, with 77% of Nigerian populatio ...
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  • SOBOLO 10 years ago

    AMA, GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS FOR THIS STEP. THIS IS VERY GOOD AND GODLY

  • Victor 10 years ago

    how about trying to look like the white woman by wearing fake Brazilian and Indian hair?

  • Village Food 10 years ago

    Victor tell them.

  • PUSSY CONTROL 10 years ago

    FAKE HAIR DOESN'T COURSE ANY CANCER . BLEACHING CAN COURSE CANCER .

  • .com 10 years ago

    What about fake hair to

  • kwame 10 years ago

    skin bleaching is a total mess but wearing some dead white woman's hair around is worse... do u see white women wearing dead black womens hair around?

  • KASBAND 10 years ago

    Don't talk only about skin bleaching, Ama. Talk about putting on the Brazilian hairs, horse hairs, etc. African women have rejected the natural hair God gave them. It makes me sick. The African woman doesn't like anything Go ...
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  • Charles 10 years ago

    God bless the womb that carried you, because I never knew we have a well thinking lady by t he real sense in Ghana. Bleaching stinks and I wish this could be extended to the use of foreign or borrowed hairs too. Ama go all th ...
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  • OZA 10 years ago

    Good, but the womb that carried Ama brought her to this world without a wig. Big time dishonesty!

  • oluwele 10 years ago

    once again ama is talking about skin bleaching but not wigs or hair extention

  • OZA 10 years ago

    Oluwele, do you feel guilty about the hair thing too? Hmmm

  • Kwasi 10 years ago

    Skin bleaching is the most nasty, funky, stinking ass shit any man or woman can do to their skin. Those who bleach their skin use more perfume daily than the average person because, the chemicals burn the skin and it stinks. ...
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  • Ghfuo, change ur thinking 10 years ago

    U can use witch hazel.to.tone your skin. Google.the benefits of witch hazel.online.

  • Ama 10 years ago

    Black is beautiful and so are you Ama..Having said that,dark skinned black women in our culture need to be comfortable and confident in their skin color in order to leave it as it is. We live in a culture where light skin is ...
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  • Nyansasem 10 years ago

    Yes, I admire what she is saying, but it is easier to point her fingers at others what she is not doing but forget about what she is doing. Just take a look at her hair..all these are the results of inferiority complex syndro ...
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  • Kik 10 years ago

    Ama,I am with you all the way.

  • monkey man 10 years ago

    Why don't you stop those who wears makeup's that also not allowed it's against the holy bible,

  • K. MANU 10 years ago

    The idea of revealing the African beauty in our ladies is very laudable. However, the campaigners should not only focus on bleaching but also hair styles. If they are really serious about their mission, then they themselves s ...
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  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    A HUGE NO NO.....WOMEN BE PROUD AND CONFIDENT IN YOUR SKIN AND ATTRIBUTES. THERE IS NOTHIGN WRONG WITH TONING. A MAN WHO RESPECTS HIMSELF WILL RESPECT YOU IF HE SEES THAT A BLACK WOMAN LOVES HERSELF, HER COLOR, HER HAIR.
    I D ...
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  • Rasta 10 years ago

    Practice what you meant.wearing WIG is the most degrading,most shameful,belittling a reasonable black woman will ever engage in,and you're wearing one.come on lady take it off.BEAUTY IS NOT ABOUT WEARING WIG,BEAUTY IS TO BE B ...
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  • Co-Equal 10 years ago

    Fake hair,fake nails,facial make up,fake hips.talk about all the fake stuffs. Talking only about bleaching is not enough. Love your natural skin as well as your natural nails,hair,eye lashes,etc

  • drttst 10 years ago

    May God bless and guide you to achieve this objective

  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    HERSHEYS OR ANY MILK CHOCOLATE MAKER WILL TELL U THE DIFFERENCE. IF U KNEW ANY BETTER, U WOULD STAY AWAY FROM WHITE CHOCOLATE.ITS IS BLEACHED AND COLORED CHOCOLATE. WHY WOULD U WANT TO PUT THIS IN YOUR BODY? GYIMIFUO!

  • Akua 10 years ago

    Even she Ama is toned. This wasn't her color unless it is a Photoshop. The Ama I knew years ago was really dark, and not that there is anything wrong with that as I don't believe in bleaching, but I feel like we all have choi ...
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  • GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

    WOMEN WITH BLEACHED FACES AND DARK NECKS , DARK FINGERS AND HANDS LOOK LIKE ALIENS, KAKAI WOMEN. WHEN I SEE THEM, I FEEL LIKE VOMITING OR SHOOTING THEM IN THE NECK.

  • BRAZILIAN HAIR, MY ARSE 10 years ago

    How about loving your African hair instead of the sickening fakery on top of your head?

  • WTF! 10 years ago

    Let's talk about black women all over the world maintaining their natural hair too!

    It's truly pathetic that no matter how high black women rise, they feel this damning inferiority complex about their hair! Just take Oprah ...
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  • NYATEFE 10 years ago

    Recent Statistic on African women bleaching per country that BLEACH MOST goes as follows:
    NIGERIA:99% of the women bleach
    TOGO:34% of the women bleach
    GHANA:27% of the women bleach
    SENEGAL:20% of the women bleach

  • SARPONG 10 years ago

    If you want to be a role model to young girls AMA Stop putting tatoos in your body for people to take you serious

  • Antiochus - London 10 years ago

    Ama you've hit the nail right on the head. Black is beautiful and skin bleaching causes cancer.

  • neava 10 years ago

    She's as fake as can be too. Wig woman, so how about we see your kinky hair too, that's loving who u r and the stuff u r made of too right? Hypocrisy

  • Steve king 10 years ago

    The lip of a righteous feed many but fools die for want of wisdom,our state of imperfection will always mislead our natural state of perfection,if we do not appreciate the true structure of our personality.

  • Efo Kofi 10 years ago

    Not only skin bleaching. Stop wearing artificial hair too, African women! You cannot continue wearing dead Caucasian women's hair thinking that's what makes you beautiful. It's all in the mind.

  • NII ARMAH 10 years ago

    NO CANCER IN CASE FOLKS WANT BETTER ANSWER. IS REALLY ABSURB TO BLEACH FOR A GUY TO MARRY YOU THEN YEARS ALONG THE LINE YOU WRINKLE LIKE NTOMAGO. IS THERE A SENSE IN THAT?

  • neava 10 years ago

    Go with whatever picks your fancy. If u like black, u marry a black gal. Whoever likes a light skin gal will also marry one. Sad thing is you'll be with your black woman and be secretly admiring the fair lady... it happens al ...
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  • POW@Ghana 4 last 4, Brazil 2014 10 years ago

    You're absolutely right, they'll admire light skins nicodemously. Even black kids don't like black Barbie dolls. I've seen them throw black dolls away in stores each time their parents pick one for them. Let people do what's ...
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  • KANE 10 years ago

    STOP USING WIGS LIKE AMA ABEBRESE. LOOK AT THIS BLACK GIRL WEARING THIS BIG WIG INSTEAD OF HER NATURAL HAIR, AND SHE'S COMPLAINING ABOUT SKKN BLEACHING AND TONING.

    PRETTY MUCH LIKE "DO AS I SAY BUT DONT DO AS I DO".

  • Albert 10 years ago

    You are always you, Since I know you. am strongly behind you. May God Bless you and see you through successfully.
    thank You

  • Kofi Akoto. aka; KALALA (O.T) 10 years ago

    Is a very idea, plz people of Africa let encourage it and to keep our natural beauty and skin. Most importantly people of our motherland Ghana. Plz!!!!

  • GOD IS WATCHING 10 years ago

    AND THE WIGS TOO.I MEAN THE POONYTAIL