Skin lightening products represent a major global industry, with sales projected to nearly double to $15.7 billion by 2030. In Africa, nowhere is the practice more prevalent than in Nigeria.

Eiman Mirghani, a Sudanese Egyptian filmmaker, explores anti-Blackness in the Arab world and her own trauma with skin bleaching in "The Bleaching Syndrome" documentary.

The government in Nigeria is warning about the health risks of skin lightening, where potent chemicals can thin and damage skin. It's a booming business in that country and others.

Skin lightening products represent a major global industry, with sales projected to nearly double to $15.7 billion by 2030. In Africa, nowhere is the practice more prevalent than in Nigeria.

Skin bleaching is terribly popular -- and takes a terrible toll Susan Anderson, age 52, sits in the corner of a sunlit waiting room at a dermatology clinic in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.