He hid that he was homosexual from Nadia and his family because he wants to please his family and meet their expectations. He likes to encourage Nadia to live a little and break the rules once in a while, as long as she is not hurting anyone else. He behaves well and is a good guy, but he likes to break the rules sometimes like drinking gin and tonics. He has curly, dark hair and a large, flashy smile with diasthema. Malik is a tall, handsome and toned black man. Malick continues on to fly to New York with Nadia and Lu at the end of Season 3. Omar decides to follow Malick to New York and live with him there, until the last minute when he changes his mind and stays with Ander. Malick and Omar secretly continue to hook up, despite the fact that Omar was still with Ander at the time.
Nadia accepts for one day but then realizes that she doesn't want to live a life of lies and she breaks it off. They continue to date and Malick even proposes to Nadia, thrilling her parents. Nadia and Malick break up- but Malick and Lu both convince Nadia that she might be better off lying to her parents about dating Malick so that they let her go to New York. They date until Nadia finds out that Malick is secretly gay and had an affair with her brother, Omar. Malick even impresses her parents and gains their approval, unlike Nadia's ex- Guzmán. He asks her out, asks to meet her family, and more.
He relates to her because they are both Muslim. In Season 3, Malick is instantly attracted and drawn to Nadia. He comes from Senegal's richest family and assumes to be "the fourth, third, maybe second" richest Las Encinas' student. His grandfather used to own gold mines, his father attended a prestigious university in New York (arguably Columbia University) and now owns Africa's biggest telecommunication company. Malick grew up in a wealthy, Muslim family form Senegal.