teachyoutruth on Instagram: "The post features an animated video demonstrating scarification, a traditional African body modification where incisions are made along pre-marked patterns, often rubbed with ash to raise and darken scars, serving as permanent markers of identity and rites of passage. Practised by various ethnic groups like the Nuer in 15 South Sudan or the Ga'anda in Nigeria, scarification symbolises maturity-enduring the pain signifies readiness for manhood-and has persisted for mi