For many a native North African, the shades of nostalgia ... of men in rural areas of Morocco still sport tattoos to this day to reinforce tribal belonging. The end of the etch The tradition ...

The media (both fashion and mainstream) tend to refer to them as “African prints” (when not referring to them more vaguely, and cringe-inducingly, as “tribal”). But the term African print ...

Joann Fletcher, an honorary archaeology research fellow at the University of York in the United Kingdom, studies tattooing’s mark on history ... Tattoo on the arm of a Pazyryk tribal chief ...

For centuries in parts of Africa, such body-marking shows a person's tribal identity ... and drawings onto the skin as ancient African 'tattoos'. In Papua New Guinea some men cut their skin ...