Toke Makinwa Outraged After Meeting Influencer With Tribal Marks

Media personality Toke Makinwa has vehemently criticized the traditional practice of marking children with tribal scars for identification, denouncing it as a form of cruelty imposed without the children’s consent.

Makinwa expressed her views in a series of posts on her X account on Sunday.

Toke Makinwa said that her reflections were prompted by an encounter with an influencer who bore tribal marks, leading her to contemplate and speak out against the age-old custom.

She wrote, “Today I saw a beautiful influencer with tribal marks and it made me think about the cruelty that culture brought upon us. Marking a child without his/her consent as a means of identification is Evil, I know our parents didn’t know any better but damnnnn!!!!”

In her subsequent posts, she highlighted that even though she admires the beauty of people with tribal marks, her concern centres around the absence of consent when marking children for identification.

“Thank God it’s abolished now. My grandma had tribal marks too.

“Some on her face and her arms, I wonder what life was like when she was younger walking around with it, though I’m sure a lot of people around her had the same but thank God it’s cancelled now,” she continued.

Following heavy backlash from some X users, Makinwa explained in another post, that her disapproval was due to the lack of consent involved and not the beauty of the marks.

“It’s not the beauty or lack of but the lack of consent. But yeah, I’ve seen a couple of beautiful people with tribal marks,” Toke Makinwa said in her denunciation of tribal marks.

See her posts below:

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