During the opening sequences of and well into WWI, Africans were used as cannon fodder like lambs to slaughter on the very front lines by the British and French. Totally expendable.. you won't see many cenotaphs in Enniskillen, Leicester or Motherwell to the human sacrifices of Mali, etc.
https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.dw.c...ica/a-46239274