What Is The Significance Of The Yoruba Tribal Marks

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Champredd, no make me vex o!    You be my friend, but that your question is going to take us back several pages down the line.

We have just come full circle from point number one, where someone tried to make out that tribal marks was a peculiar practice found in Yoruba land, to where it was noted by others that tribal marks were not peculiar to just Yoruba people, but was common in most ethnic groups. From there, the discussion expanded to a comparison of tribal marks and tattoos, before it went on to become a heated debate of how the same set of people who were trying to generalize the issue on the tribal mark thingy, rejected any attempt to generalize on the osu thingy in another thread. From the tribal mark issue, we had folks who described it as mutilation, and actually came to say such practices didn’t exist in their tribe, and when it was pointed out that it actually did (backed by references), the whole thing then became a ping-pong debate of denial.

Shey, you can still follow the trend? Then, it took on a further dimension, when the naming ceremony angle was added into it, as those denying that facial marks existed in their ethnic group, were reminded of how they had also denied that naming ceremonies existed in their ethnic group in another thread, only to be confronted by facts and records, that it did. Then everyone left the issue of facial marks and another debate on naming ceremonies & its’ existence, began. Arguments were put forward, references were cited and some insults were exchanged in the process. Now, we have finally drawn the curtains on that issue (I think!) and we are trying to move back to the topic of facial marks. 

Now all of a sudden, you are popping up to take us back to where we started.

Abeg, take time o!. 

Hehehe. . . . ;

UmmHas someone been to this Igbo ceremony yet?

By the way, I just realized that if Yorubas needed such marks to identify themselves then they must have been fighting each other on a regular basis prior to colonization. True or False?

True, especially in the times the Ibadan-based kingdom wanted to conquer the smaller ones around it to collect royalties. The marks were not the only differentiators though, language and dressing differences also existed as well for the same purpose

Your stereotypes, discriminations, and prejudices about the Yoruba people better be recycled online, or said amonst your people, or left as soliloquies, otherwise you say this dumb rubbish outside that vicinity, you'll get your bodies twisted.

10 Char.

I want to understand why so many igbo people are so acrimonious.
They find the slighest opportunity to turn every discussion into a tribalistic one "Igbo vs. whatever"
Face your problem(s) if you want a means to achieve an end to it.

>10 Char.

Don't blame him for something you perpetrated

> 10 Char.

That question has been answered over and over and over and over again, Bitch!

10 Char.

Ok keep on crying me a river, sister.
Since you've concluded that it's probably because they're warring a lot stick to that conclusion, golugo.

There is no significance of tribal marks in this modern day and age.

No quarrel o 

Will you stop trying to insticate a fight between Donzman and  kobe just because he got you hands down on the Igbo naming ceremony nonsense. Oh by the way my dear you are so not funny so please don't quit your day job.

@Laudate

None of these people are a match, I'm just done with this topic, nothing more to say.

@tpia

Why exactly are you acting like a little girl?. . .Yorubas got these marks because they was a lot of warring between groups, how exactly is that tribalist?. . .You proceeded to tell me that Arochukwu people captured other villages and sold them to slavery, ok, how does that change anything?. . .Dumbass, you probably have your brain up your fat ass or something. My own village wasn't united before colonization, so what? How does that stop me from asking if Yorubas got the tribal marks because they were in constant fighting?


If your day job is mind reading, you need something else to do because you're very bad at it.

Ok let me count, I asked it first time, Debosky replied and I returned to this thread only to see you and your live-in boyfriend attacking Donzman. You are the tribalist, you're the one who see a simple question as a competition, you're an insecure human being and you're striving for attention. Guess what?. . .Donzman isn't giving idiots like you, I've got something better to do. Giving you attention will be akin to bathing and clothing a pig, a waste of my rather precious time! Go get a life you fucking idiot, I'm above you but I'm not God so I cannot give you a life, neither will I let you partake in mine. I do not share my life with insecure tribalists like you!

look, dunceman, you need to check your own backyard before opening your mouth to comment on other people. Since you've shown you only see the world through the unbalanced, tribalistic and prejudiced myopia that you call a viewpoint, you shouldnt act upset when you get called out.

knowing you, you've probably convinced yourself that all evil rests with Yoroba people while all heavenly virtues rest in Igboland. Too bad you don't know your own history.

Even if you were let off on that alone, why was that your only focus?  Why didn't you yield when others pointed out that tribal marks aren't specific to the Yorubas alone? You didn't because you are a dunce man.  You are one of the few that derailed this topic and turned it into a blame game.  Your fellow crimesmen also condmned Yorubas saying they're cruel and whatever. You get off and cream your pants when tribalism-centered arguments break out.  Why didn't you ask why igbos need to mark the face of the sick? Is it because those marks aren't as thick? you fool, I can go on and on about your selfishness on this thread.  Slut!
Uche? me and who in a committee for edu wetin? not this guy, his bias alone is enough to make me break his head.