Giving a child tribal marks without his/her consent is evil – Toke Makinwa

Nigerian media personality, Toke Makinwa, has strongly condemned the traditional way of using tribal marks as a means of identification for children, calling it cruelty inflicted on children without their consent.

The gorgeous media personality said this on her X account, while she recounts her recent encounter with an influencer she met with tribal marks on her face.

She wrote “Today I saw a beautiful beauty 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 a series of post that followed, she explained that she had no problem with the age-long tradition, but her issue lies in the lack of consent involved in marking children for identification with tribal marks.

“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 said in another post.

While she faced backlash from some X users, Makinwa reiterated that it her disapproval was with the lack of consent 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,” she explained.

When an X user slammed Makinwa and compared tribal marks to tattoos, she retorted saying “Tattoos are a choice, marking a child without their consent is not the same. You rest, weirdo.”