In Africa scarring is shown as a symbol of strength, fortitude and courage in both men and women. It is a permanent procedure to symbolize beauty and to decorate their body. The process in which they scar themselves involves cutting patterns into their skin. Different tools were used to make these scars.
Scarification effects were valued highly but the procedure was slow and painful, during this procedure it didn't only depend on the artists skill it depended on the person's pain tolerance. If a woman was eager to be scarred she would tolerate the pain and this showed that she had the emotional ability to bear children.
Body and facial scarring's made it possible to identify one tribe from another.
Although the art of scarification has fallen away from Africa different countries still believe that scarring is a way to decorate the body and proceed to do so.
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