Popular media personality, Toke Makinwa, has described the practice of parents embellishing tribal marks on their kids without consent as evil.

The popular media personality took to the popular microblogging platform X formerly known as Twitter to make a lengthy tweet on the issue of tribal marks.

She wrote;
“Today I saw a beautiful 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 her subsequent posts, she highlighted that even though she admires the beauty of people with tribal marks, her concern centres around the absence of consent when marking children for identification.

“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 continued.

Her post generated huge criticism from many and she was forced to clarify in another post, where she wrote;

“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.