Beauty Firms Run After Africa Cosmetics Boom

Kudirat Fashola brought beauty products back from the United States in her luggage and began as a one-woman business run out of a suitcase, the Nigeria's Kuddy Cosmetics. More than 20 years later, her daughter Zainob helps run the company which now wholesales leading beauty brands and is flooded with requests from companies anxious to crack the fast-growing cosmetics market in Africa's most populous country. "They love Nigeria. Every week I get emails... ...