and beauty have become two sides of the same coin according to some women. I will argue that it is based on what the media and the advertising industry has been hard at work doing: Portraying white and lighter shades as more beautiful to young girls.

Ghana's Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) says using Glutathione pills for this purpose is dangerous, adding it wants. The Authority wanted:

"The general public to know that no product has been approved by the FDA in the form of a tablet to lighten the skin of the unborn child."

The practice is growing in Ghana, according to the FDA, with pills often smuggled into the country inside luggage at airports in large quantities.

Security agencies and police are working together to arrest and prosecute companies and individuals in possession of the illegal tablets.

Ghana hit the headlines last month when candidates for jobs in the immigration service were disqualified from the recruitment process if they bleached skin or stretch marks, for fear they might bleed during the "strenuous" training.

Sad! I will leave this proverb below:

"The darker the berry the sweeter the juice."