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 started tracing his roots back through slavery over a 15 year period and his pioneering research has been recognised by the University of Cambridge, where Malik started a PhD in history in 2020 with a full scholarship.