By: Michael Tobolo, Junior Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History   INTRODUCTION Despite the critical and decisive role that artillery played in the great wars and that it dominated the battlefields, the history of artillery during most conflicts has been neglected. Its

By: David Rilley-Harris, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History (DNMMH)     More than one million Maasai people live in a region on the east coast of Africa, which encompasses Central and Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania. Their traditional Nilotic language is

By David Rilley-Harris, Curator, DITSONG: National Museum of Military History (DNMMH).     One woman who wanted to be a school teacher in 1950s South Africa would find herself in the late 1980s, the sole agent on the verge of breaking an international