The historical event that Martin Kimani is referring to is the Berlin Conference.
Why did Africans not draw their own borders?
When the Europeans wanted to colonize Africa, they decided that they would draw up borders over areas that they wanted to control so as to avoid conflict amongst themselves.
At the Berlin Conference, they draw borders over the continent to mark their areas of dominance and these same borders were then used to apply to current African nations.
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