south west advance level mock 2021 paper 3 answer guide
SOUTH WEST REGIONAL MOCK GCE EXAMINATION
MARCH 2020 MARKING GUIDE FOR 0760 HISTORY 3
1. Examine the merits and demerits of the activities of pioneer Christian missions in West Africa
during the 19th century.
A two part question based on the merits and demerits of the activities of pioneer Christian Missions in
West Africa.
Introduction: Define a Christian Mission and give examples in West Africa.
Part One: Merits of the activities of Christian missions.
a) Social merits
– Conversion of Africans into Christianity.
– The building of churches and the establishment of missionary stations.
– Instilled in Africans a sense of honesty, unity and love for one another.
– Abolition of slave trade and slavery.
– Provision of health facilities that reduced mortality rate.
– Provision of educational facilities leading to a drop in illiteracy and ignorance.
– Development of African languages e.g. Ashanti and Twi in Sierra Leone and Yoruba in Nigeria.
– Introduction of European ways of life.
– Establishment of printing presses and newspapers.
– Emergence of educated African elite that became the vanguard of the struggle for independence, etc.
b) Economic merits
– Promotion of agriculture. New crops and new methods of farming were introduced. Model farms
were set up.
– Employment of Africans in Sierra Leone and Nigeria as clerks, teachers, pastors and catechists.
– Promotion of legitimate trade.
– Raised living standards of Africans in Sierra Leone.
– Material progress – infrastructural development e.g. roads and small scale industries in craft.
– Architectural developments leading to an improvement in housing in Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
– Establishment of trading companies e.g. the CMS Trading Company in Nigeria created in 1863.
c) Political merits
– Conflict resolution or the restoration of peace e.g. Yorubaland in Nigeria.
– Negotiated the exchange of prisoners of war during the Egba-Dahomey War in Nigeria.
– Laid the foundation of nationalism and independence, etc
