What Is The Significance Of The Yoruba Tribal Marks

since you keep claiming those marks arent ichie, then what ARE ichie marks? and why is there an excuse being made for them considering they are also on a person's face? Length or size of them don't matter whatsoever. point is it's on the person's face.


Neither do all Yoruba people you cad. Just say that it bothered you that these so called street blockers didnt invite you insterad of making false accusations then maybe i'll invite you when I have my own.

i see the boxing gloves are still on. blows, name calling and all.  what a thread!
quietly slinks out to avoid stray bullets.

Minus Minus, lol, I do not know the specifics of these tribal marks, you're taking these things way too seriously, nobody is competing with you!

I never said it was exclusive to the Yorubas, I do not know what you're going on about, I know Edos with about 5 +/- 2  1/2inch strokes on each side of the face. I also know many Igbos with the little medicinal marks I've been telling you about!

@babyosisi

 i volunteer to give you those marks. i am manually dexterous.
i doubt it requires much skill.

don't waste ur time resaerching any shit. how can sum'one "else" tell u about yourself and you go research it to see if it's true? u should know yourself better. TOH has finally made sense for once when she said . YOU and DONZMAN are more than likely arguing with a special ed student who keeps deviating from the damn point. :rolleyes:

wats da one called terracotta datz now advising us to go "READ" our culture. which kind of fool has to read his own culture when you can live it? na wa for some people in nairaland. if it's written down somewhere, it must be fact.
basically what they're saying is: "hey Igbos, this is what i've read about y'all and you better accept it as fact because i read it with my big brain. i don't care what you think you know about your own culture; whatever it is that you do think you know was not written in the book that i read and therefore it can't be real or true."
WTF?

No tribe knows it all in naija and each have their own traditional stuff whether barbaric, insane or useless. Our forefathers designed their respective cultural practices all of which may not be perfect. C'mon guys, we should find better ways to eradicate the remnant of colonial injuries. People get tribal marks as way of identifying their folks in case they get captured by the slave traders. I think we should blame those that came and distrupt the peace of innocent people and take them away to the unknown lands.
This thread is about to cause a divorce between me and my wife as one of us is Igbo and the other is Yoruba with tribal marks for that matter, and we were just planning on given our baby tribal marks in one of his/her cheek.
Some people here are taking this issue far too personal already. Please end this before it ends my home.
Thax ya all. 

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Lol why do you bother? 4Play has already exposed you osisi darling and your lame crew 

Hmm, this is one hell of a debate, funny though.

I never understood what the facial marks were about, when I was a nipper. As far as saying it's to identify a particular tribe, that's daft! If that's the case, then it also serves to create seperatism, in a country where all brothers and sisters should be united, with a common goal!

Neither I, or anyone in my family had our faces sliced, for which I'm profoundly grateful.

And Gettochyck, you're really funny, in a nice way, I'll follow this thread with keen interest! 

From what I've read, it's obvious that there is some bad history between the main posters on this thread, so that stops people from trying to understand what the other is saying,

The purposes of tribal marking has been explained time and time again, and although it's use is not really practical nowadays, like others have said it is a remnant of old cultural practices.

I don't think God gave anybody the right to judge other people's cultures and practices, so all those who are judging and making the yoruba culture seem negative or barbaric because of this should really stop, because it is reflecting negatively on them, I say this as somebody who is not familair with those on either side of the issue and making judgments based on what I read on this thread,  it is enough to say you don't like it and that is your opinion which nobody can argue with, don't go making value judgments on the culture whether implicitly or explicitly,

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what you think is ugly, somebody else might think is beautiful, so please don't call something negative just because you think it is ugly,

As for child abuse, exactly what constitutes child abuse? these marks, like circumcision cause pain at the onset that fade away, only like some people have pointed out, tribal marks can cause ridicule especially at school, but what doesnt? should parents that have a funny last name or name their kids names like gaylord or butts, be accused of barbarism or child abuse because their child experiences ridicule in school?  Just cause a child doesnt consent to something that some people might not like, that doesnt mean the child was abused,

if tribal marks were used for identification in the old days, and also to prevent slavery-well, slavery has been abolished, and nowadays ID CARDS  or PASSPORTS are used for identification.

Anyone who insists on being an enemy of progress should be fined heavily and jailed. If jail doesnt affect them, then they should be made to pay through the nose for such ignorance. i bet even the practice of giving tribal marks itself had a beginning. there was probably a time before tribal marks in the past, until some " bright (?)" fella came up with the idea.

if una no fit change expired practice, you want make oyinbo come change ya mind for you?

what nonsense.

where and how was I exposed?
Was this exposition done in my absence?
I have no crew and never did.
I don't need to convince you or anyone if you insist on believing a mere booklet by some author over reality.
I guess davidylan who happens to have an Igbo mom with Igbo uncles is "my crew"
In this subject he stands as an independent witness and has spoken loud and clear but did you hear him?
You are a smart woman and ought to know that no one here has any need to hide anything.
naming ceremony is not an evil ocassion so why would anyone deny it?
I have asked you a simple question.
If Igbos did away with naming ceremony since the coming of the white man,is the white man still to come to Ijebu ode?

_{this question may take you a lifetime to answer,I'll be waiting?}

Lmao, yea sure.  Those that havent "experienced" him nko and still believe merely because of The bible, what do you say about that? Lol. Have fun with that one. 

I have to ask you questions at your _retarded level,maybe then you'll understand

asking "where" in a thread where the answer is so obvious shows that you are the retarded one, love

But don't worry for I have love for all, even the mentally disabled. 

You seem to be watching the thread keenly so it seems that you do have time.

Like I said before, 4Play don expose you and your true intentions on this thread. I'm just curious on why you even bother is all.

Have a good night