This collection consists of papers, articles, correspondence, publications, photographs, audio-visual material, and artefacts of Professor George "Sam" Shepperson, a prominent scholar of African and American African history, and Malawi specialist. This includes, among other things, papers and correspondence relating to central and eastern Africa with special reference to Malawi and Tanzania (including correspondence of Julius Nyerere); papers on nationalism in Nyasaland (Malawi), including correspondence on and with important figures such as Dr. Hastings Banda, John Chilembwe, Orton and Vera Chirwa, Dunduzu Chisiza, and Clements Kadalie; research and correspondence on John Chilembwe and the 1915 rising; papers, correspondence and photographs relating to missionaries in Africa and especially in Nyasaland (Malawi) in the 19th and 20th centuries; correspondence relating to Joseph Booth and Rev. Edwin Shaw; material on African studies; material relating to the University of Malawi; and African ethnological artefacts.