High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Malik Al Nasir (formerly Mark T. Watson) is a British author and poet, born in Liverpool, England in 1966 to a Welsh mother and a Guyanese father. He grew up partly with his family in Liverpool and after the paralysis of his father, he was taken into local authority care. He successfully sued the government for neglect, racism and physical abuse whilst in their care and received a public apology from Liverpool`s Lord Mayor.