African borders are foreign creations and do not conform to our realities

The sticking with colonial borders and the resultant feelings of discrimination and domination has caused many separatist movements and conflicts. [Courtesy]

While in South Africa recently, President Uhuru Kenyatta pointed out that foreigners created African borders as a basis of extraction and not our historical and cultural identities. He was pitching for more Afrocentric and intra-African trade and cooperation for development. African borders are products of colonialism and conquest by European powers.