Malik Al Nasir
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Malik Al Nasir

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Malik Al Nasir is an author, performance poet and filmmaker from Liverpool. He has produced and appeared in several documentaries with Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, Benjamin Zephaniah, Public Enemy, and many other luminaries. Malik’s first book, was a collection of poems published in 2004 entitled ‘Ordinary Guy’ under his former name ‘Mark T. Watson’. Having been taken into care at the age of 9, Malik suffered racism and brutality at the hands of care staff, until he was finally released at age 18. Malik was penniless, destitute and semi-literate when in 1984 a chance meeting with activist poet ‘Gil Scott-Heron’ changed his life. Malik used poetry to become literate and went in to obtain a Bachelors and a Masters degree. Malik started tracing his roots back through slavery over a 15 year period and his pioneering research has been recognised by Sir Hilary Beckles (Chair of CARICOM Commission for Slavery Reparations), historian David Olusoga, and The University of Cambridge, where Malik started a PhD in history in 2020 with a full scholarship, in recognition of the significance of his research. Maliks memoire ‘Letters to Gil’ is published in September 2021 by the William Collins imprint of Harper Collins.
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