![]() ![]() ![]() It is unfortunate that many Africans have also bought into this cultural imperialist propaganda against tribal marks and other marks on the body of an African.Įthnic scars are forms of culture and art that African peoples have developed. In almost every sixty ethnic groups in Burkina Faso, we find that cultural value appears as an identity card but also a work of art with its meanings and aesthetic values. Deaf / dumb kids etc., were tribal marked for quick identification especially when such need assistance in public. Today, in the Western world many people are also piercing their bodily parts (including tongue, lips, navel, clitoris, penis, breast, eyebrows et al) and inserting it with various rings as a sign of high class culture and they turn around to accuse Africans who mark their body for various valid historical, cultural, medical, religious and aesthetic reasons. Taken in Eastern Sudan,close to EthiopiaĪs a matter of fact I take strong exception to the marks on African indigenes as "Scarification." It was is the Westerners way of undermining everything African and making it look ugly and an un-civilize practice. They are divided to many main branches and every branch have a different marks("Shluh")on their faces.She has also unique black tatoo on her lips. They are nomads with cattles,by origin from countries in Western Africa.
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