Facial Markings Alive and Well Among Millennials and Generation Z

When my hānai brother, who knew about my ongoing research on children’s scarification in Africa, sent through Nduka Orjinmo’s BBC Article, I read it with great excitement. I quickly appreciated the empirical style used in curating the stories and images of scarification bearers featured but noticed two gaping pieces of misinformation. First, although the Federal Government has enacted a law banning the markings of children in Nigeria, it has not largely deterred…

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