Other African body altering traditions involve extreme forms of body piercing The origin of the word ‘tattoo’ is believed to have two major derivations; the first is from the Polynesian word "ta" ...

Emmanuel Item was first exposed to tattoo culture when he played guitar in a heavy metal band in Vienna. Item, who is of Nigerian and Austrian descent, already liked to draw in sketch pads, but after ...

Benin is experiencing a tattoo craze, with mostly young women rushing to undergo the needle. Tattooing has not been part of Benin's culture, but these days one cannot miss the flowers, intertwined ...