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DESHA EXAMINATION BOARD

2024 MALAWI SCHOOL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION
MOCK EXAMINATION

HISTORY
Subject Number: M012
th
Tuesday, 19 March, 2024 Time Allowed : 2hrs
2:00 – 4:00pm
PAPER II
AFRICAN AND WORLD HISTORY
(120 marks)

Instructions

1. This paper contains 10 pages. Please check.

2. This paper has Three sections A, B and C

3. Answer all questions.in the spaces provided

IMPORTANT

4. Make sure you write your name and number in the Spaces provided on
top of all the pages on your answer sheet before you start answering the
questions.

5. Watch your handwriting

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Section A (40 marks)

CENTRAL AFRICAN HISTORY
Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided
1. a. Explain any two factors that influenced the Lomwe settlement in the
Southern Malawi
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b. What impact did the Lomwe have on the indigenous people in Malawi?
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c. Give any two reasons why Chiwere Ndhlovu welcomed the Missionaries
in his territory
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d. Describe any two challenges encountered by early missionaries in

Malawi
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e. State any one role of each of the following groups in the Organisation of
slave trade
i. Chiefs
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ii. Middle persons

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2. a. (i) Define the term Federation

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(ii) Explain any two reasons for African Opposition to the Central
African Federation
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b. Why did the following groups refuse to sign treaties with Alfred
Sharpe?

i. The Bemba
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ii. The Mpezeni Ngoni

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c. Explain any two results of the 1893 Ndebele War
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d. How did the African initiated Churches contribute to the nationalism

in Malawi? Give two points
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e. Explain any two poor conditions African labourers faced in the

mining centres in Southern and Northern Rhodesia
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Section B (40 marks)

WORLD HISTORY
Answer all the questions in this section in the spaces provided

3. a. Explain any two reasons why Russia was not allowed to attend the
Paris Peace Conference
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b. State any two functions of the League of Nations

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c. How did World War I influence the 1917 March Revolution in Russia?
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d. How did the Bolsheviks Consolidate power in Russia? Give two points
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e. What impact did communism have on Russia? State two points

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f. Explain any two factors that contributed to the failure of the UNO
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4. a. State any two impacts of the Post War Alliances

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b. (i) Define the term Cold War

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(ii) What impact did the Cold War have on Africa? Give two points
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c. What impact did the First World War have on the Japanese economy?
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d. Explain any two domestic policies of Adolf Hitler in Germany

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e. Explain the British colonial policies in India on the following:

i. trade
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ii. education
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Section C (40 Marks)

Answer any two questions from this section in an essay form; one from Central
African History and the other from World History. Failure to answer the
questions in essay form will lead to automatic loss of four marks

CENTRAL AFRICAN HISTORY

e. Assess the impact of the ivory and slave trade on indigenous people
(20 marks)
f. Discuss the causes and the results of the Shona – Ndebele revolts of 1896
– 97 (20 marks)

WORLD HISTORY
g. Describe the Organisational structure of the League of Nations
h. Discuss the factors that led to the defeat of Germany and her allies. (1914
– 1918)

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