Nsima Inyang

I want to mention this.

What I'm about to say is nothing against white people.

Since a majority of health information is put forward by folks that are white, there is a level of care that you need to have when you go into ultraviolet sun that

I probably don't need to have because I'm 100% Nigerian from West Africa, where year round, we have UVB that's from ranges six to nine to 11 to 12.

Even in December, UVB is around six.

But when someone like that goes to- Is Nigeria?

It's close.

It's close to the equator.

It's close.

Yeah, especially because of the UVB.

And this is why people in Africa have developed a high level of melanin.

But the thing is, and this is where I'm speaking to brown folks especially, to stop avoiding the sun.

Because when you go somewhere like the UK,

where there are three, four, actually, no, no, no, four or five months of the year, you know, where the UVB in the middle of the day is like two, sometimes one, sometimes you get none of that exposure.

You need to try to get as much sun as humanly possible.

And you cannot be listening to this advice from certain people where they're like, avoid the sun for skin.

Because even there are certain folks that are brown and black that avoid the sun because they don't want to get darker because of aspects of colorism.

Across the world and other places,

Lighter skin, even amongst brown skin is seen as beautiful.

So people will purposefully get less sun exposure so that they can avoid getting darker.