Last month, families of Kenyan men allegedly duped into fighting for Russia held protests in Nairobi, as the government revealed that more than 1,000 citizens had been so recruited. “These are ... matters of human rights, national responsibility, and continental dignity,” declared the Centre for Investigative Journalism in Zambia. “When African lives are treated as expendable labour or disposable combatants in a foreign conflict, governments have a duty to ask hard questions, and to act.”