BLF: Searching for my Slave Roots

BLF: Searching for my Slave Roots
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025
Date and time
12 Oct 2025 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Location

Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

£10
£8 concessions

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Malik Al Nasir

Searching For My Slave Roots with Malik Al Nasir

Malik Al Nasir was born in Liverpool to a white mother and a Black father. Bemused by memories of racist shouts for him to ‘go back to where you came from’, he began to investigate his ancestry. Searching For My Slave Roots is set between Liverpool and Demerara, in what was British Guiana, and traces Malik’s personal story and family history alongside the historical story of sugar and the barbaric transportation and abuse of human beings. Along the way he finds himself part of a complex lineage linking slaveholdings to high sheriffs, mayors and a British prime minister.

Chaired by Kehinde Andrews

Running time approx. one hour

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