Searching for My Slave Roots with Malik Al Nasir

Malik Al Nasir is an author, filmmaker, performance poet, and an award-winning academic from Liverpool.

He joins us to read from his book Searching for my Slave Roots: From Gyana’s sugar plantations to Cambridge, which was published in August this year.

Born in Liverpool to mixed parentage, Malik started tracing his roots back through Caribbean slavery over 20 years ago, and his pioneering research has been recognised by Sir Hilary Beckles, Chair of the CARICOM Commission for slavery reparations, historian David Olusoga, and the University of Cambridge, where Malik has just completed a PhD in History.

In recognition of the significance of his research, Malik received several awards whilst at Cambridge, and is co-founder of the policymaking initiative, ‘Black Academia – Lifting the Barriers’. He has produced and appeared in several documentaries with Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Benjamin Zephaniah, Public Enemy, Ice T and many other luminaries.

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