The name Ebun Oloyede might not readily ring a bell but once the pseudonym, Igwe Olaiya is mentioned, then a popular Yoruba actor with tribal marks comes to mind.

In an interview with Saturday Beats, the actor described his tribal marks as a problem for him, adding that he was glad he was not a professional footballer.

“These tribal marks happen to be a problem. As you are looking at me, I do not have the privilege to be a footballer but if I were one, I would not have been able to play professionally because of these tribal marks. They would believe that you had surgery and you would be banned from playing. Our parents thought it was part of our culture but it was an uncivilised act. What they did was not something good.

“They believed that with the marks on my face, people would be able to identify my lineage but they were fooling themselves. How would they have known if my father had sex with his housemaid and she gave birth to me but his wife decided not to make a fuss about it? Yet people would believe that I am from that lineage. Tribal marks are not a DNA, many people might not agree with me but I know what I am talking about. However, there is nothing I can do about it,” he said.

He, however, added that he had grown used to the marks but vowed never to give his children any tribal marks.

He said, “I travel abroad but I cannot go and do surgery to remove them. In fact, when I started travelling abroad, I saw a lot of people with more visible tribal marks than I have. I do not see it as a big deal anymore but I can never put it on my children’s face because of what I went through.”

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the white man is gradually wiping away our culture

Lol

Odunlade the meme lord don pursue them this one comot for the industry baba go dey push coco on the low

This man ehn

Vote Atiku!

Congrats

U mean like this

But now giving you heads...







up for opportunities.

The oga kpatapkata of them all...Tuale sir....
This man is damn so good.....if this man act wahrah for you you go foh.....IGWE BOSS

Very funny man

If he sound so bitter like this, then what ll a Gogobiri say.
Picture of a goburawa man below

Y do sme men bleach their skin

Tribal mark is barbaric.
It was a fashion statement in olden days because they celebrate uncivilized fuuckery then, so we can't blame the ancient ancestors. Every ancient African tribe has it's own wack fashion custom then.
Except that any parent who practice defacing a kid now should be charged with child abuse. Enough of the stone age tradition.

Always in the Yoruba classics. Clown extraordinaire

Ah ah! Where the tribal msrk

Lmao!
Baba oko'la.

You gotta love this man's playful attitude

It's always cool to laugh at oneself once in a while...

You can't do nothing to it...Thank God the idea has been reduced drastically.....olaiya take heart

Forget about the tribal marks and stop bleaching like a woman

OK

Youngbbt:
the white man is gradually wiping away our culture

You don't have sense.. Am very sure you don't have a tribal mark... I know what this people are going through. Person like me can't even date any gal with it

Tribal mark is cultural. It has nothing to do with how life treats you.

Youngbbt:
the white man is gradually wiping away our culture

Don't be dogmatic, our culture is not perfect. Neither is theirs

patogist:


You don't have sense.. Am very sure you don't have a tribal mark... I know what this people are going through. Person like me can't even date any gal with it

why? I don't think tribal mark can hinder ur dating life.