MSCE History case studies
MSCE History · Put your knowledge to work in context.
MSCE History is one of the subject examinations in the Malawi School Certificate of Education - the school-leaving qualification taken at the end of secondary schooling in Malawi and widely used for selection into tertiary study, teacher training, public-service recruitment and further vocational courses. This page is an independent study resource. The MSCE History case studies are 5 cases and about 2,889 words.
1Three Sources, One Uprising: Weighing Evidence on the 1915 Chilembwe Revolt
A candidate is preparing a 1,500-word assignment on the human cost of the 1915 Chilembwe uprising. She has three sources.
544 words, about 3 min2Was Mankhamba a Capital or a Trading Post? Interpreting Maravi Archaeology
A student is writing an 800-word essay on the Maravi state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She has four pieces of evidence.
588 words, about 3 min3The 1935 Hut Tax Memo: Coercion, Cotton and Labour in the Shire Highlands
You are a district officer in the Shire Highlands of Nyasaland in 1935. The Governor has asked for a confidential memo on a proposal to raise the hut tax from 8 shillings to 12 shillings a year.
616 words, about 3 min4After Chilembwe: Punishment or Reform? The 1916 Commission of Inquiry
You are a missionary adviser to a commission of inquiry set up in 1916 after the Chilembwe uprising. The commission has heard three kinds of evidence.
550 words, about 3 min5The 1964 Cabinet Crisis: A Minister's Choice in Independent Malawi
You are a junior minister in Malawi in August 1964. Six senior ministers have challenged Prime Minister Hastings Banda over his refusal to speed up Africanisation of the civil service and army, his retention of British officials, and his willingness to maintain diplomatic and economic links with apartheid South Africa and Portuguese Mozambique.
591 words, about 3 min