Malik Al Nasir

Malik Al Nasir

@malikalnasir.bsky.social

PhD Candidate, (History) University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College. Poet, author “Letters to Gil” (William Collins, 2021) “Searching for my Slave Roots” (William Collins, 28 Aug 2025). Protégé of Gil Scott-Heron https://linktr.ee/malikalnasir

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Thanks to Liverpool Book Festival for hosting me and showcasing my books at the weekend. I took “Letters to Gil” my memoir of my life with the poet & activist Gil Scott-Heron, & my new book “Searching for my Slave Roots” charting my roots quest back to Guyana.

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1 year ago
Shut up and write at Cambridge: thank you Rennie

This week, The ThinkLab @thinklab.bsky.social teamed up with @writingpartners.bsky.social @suaw.bsky.social to host the inaugural Community in Writing Symposium in Cambridge.

First, a sincere thank you to @webhooligan.bsky.social for being with us, and for bringing #shutupandwrite into the world.

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BBC Radio Suffolk 6 Mar 2026 - Malik Al Nasir Interview Angelle shares an evening of community conversations and the biggest things this week including Malik Al Nasir’s upcoming talk at The Cambridge Union about his roots quest in his new book Searching fo

Check out Malik Al Nasir’s interview on BBC Radio Suffolk about his talk at The @CambridgeFestival in the Cambridge Union at 6pm 30 Mar 26, discussing his new book ‘Searching for My Slave Roots - From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge.

#MalikAlNasir #BBC

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Thanks for hosting us Dr Amal Abu-Bakare @nawalabu72.bsky.social and all your team and the local community in Toxteth.

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A special thank you to the guest speakers, Dr
@malikalnasir.bsky.social and Rhiannon Jones, for their presentation on "Lifting The Barriers to Black Academia": blackacademia.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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You can now access the letters in a digital collection for free on @theul.bsky.social Cambridge Digital Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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This workshop will also include a presentation by Dr Malik Al Nasir and Rhiannon Llystyn Jones, editor and author of the ‘Lifting The Barriers To Black Academia Through Decolonisation and Positive Action — Policy Roundtable Report’. @malikalnasir.bsky.social : blackacademia.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Overcoming the horrors of Liverpool’s 1970s and 80s care system - Nu Origins Magazine While one can’t legally purchase alcohol or gain a commercial driver’s license (CDL) until 21 years of age in the U.S, turning 18 marks a significant landmark throughout most societies, allowing indiv...

“Growing up Black in the Merseyside care system.

Dr Malik Al Nasir in New York Magazine, Nu Origins, about his adolescent years growing up in Liverpool’s care system… & his recently published book: Searching for My Slave Roots”

#MalikAlNasir #NuOrigins #NewYork

www.nuorigins.com/overcoming-t...

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There will be be no investigation. There is no due process in America anymore. It has reverted to the Wild West. You have a better chance of justice in a third world country these days than the USA. All politicians on both sides are to blame. Your poor decisions have led to this. Take responsibility

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Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge ‘I suspect that in ten years’ time, we’ll look back at the study of slavery and try to remember what it was like before we’d heard of the Sandbach Tinne dynasty. That we’ll struggle to imagine how we ...

The project was to some degree underpinned by my research into Sandbach Tinne who enslaved my ancestors in Demerara. You can read about it in my book
harpercollins.co.uk/products/sea...

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Family fortunes founded on slavery: introducing the Sandbach Tinne Collection Records unearthed by a Cambridge PhD student expose the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties, as revealed in a new book and digital collection.

You can access my digital collection of the merchants that enslaved my ancestors in Guyana on the University of Cambridge Library website. Sandbach Tinne were among the UK’s biggest enslavers. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sand...

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The Sandbach Research Project

You can read about it here www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/Sandbach-Res...

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Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archive

Letters found on eBay cast light on UK families who benefited from slavery

Researcher Malik Al Nasir bought historical documents while investigating his family history – and began building an archiveA bundle of letters discovered for sale on eBay by a man researching his roots has cast new...

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Family fortunes founded on slavery: introducing the Sandbach Tinne Collection Records unearthed by a Cambridge PhD student expose the kinship and brutality behind one of Britain’s most powerful slave-trading dynasties, as revealed in a new book and digital collection.

Discover more about Al Nasir's painstaking research to expose Sandbach Tinne & Co. ⬇️

www.cam.ac.uk/stories/sand...

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The flag of The Bahamas flying above St Catharine's College Publicity for 'Searching for My Slave Roots' event on 9 October

We're flying the flag of The Bahamas for the 6th year in a row to celebrate the start of Black History Month, commemorating our first Black student A.F. Adderley (1912, Law) & over a century of Black history at Catz ever since. See what's planned at caths.cam.ac.uk/bhm-...

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Jesus was an Asylum Seeker who fled from Palestine due to a well founded fear of persecution and sought refuge in Egypt. Imagine what Xmas would be if Reform had been power in Egypt?

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Visual methodologies in documenting community knowledge in planning - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Open call 📣

CRASSH's Community Design Lab & the Cambridge Room invite artists and collectives to apply for a £2,000 commission to support a project that explores how Cambridge is understood through its social, spatial, historical, and cultural layers

Apply by 19 Jan
https://bit.ly/3XDXymf

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Was a pleasure to speak about #Heiresses @bridportarts.bsky.social with @malikalnasir.bsky.social - author of “Searching For My Slave Roots” and @paullashmar.bsky.social author of “Drax of Drax Hall“. So many synergies between our work. And some fascinating insights from the audience too…

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Cardinal rule “Don’t get high on your own supply” (Tony Montana)

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4 months ago
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Malik Al Nasir – Searching for my slave roots: from Guyana´s sugar plantations to Cambridge...wit... YouTube video by Talk Radio Europe

Check out my interveiw on Talk Radio Europe about the worlds 1st Black International footballer Andrew Watson. I’m also talking about my new book 📕 “Searching for my Slave Roots”

#MalikAlNasir #SearchingForMySlaveRoots #TalkRadioEurope #Slavery #Colonialism #Spain #Europe

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