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Richard Gray
Richard Gray is the author of Malangatana: The Eye of the Crocodile (Galda Verlag, 2025), the first full-length book about Malangatana. It was developed from his Ph.D. thesis (University of London, SOAS, 2023). Previously, Gray has been a teacher, community publisher and people’s historian. None of these jobs was more memorable or personally formative than working as a cooperante internacionalista in revolutionary Mozambique (1977–81). This involved participating with Malangatana in a national campaign to reclaim Mozambican history and culture from the effects of Portuguese colonialism. Gray’s longstanding relationship with Malangatana and his family has informed his subsequent research. In 1990, for example, he was employed as researcher on the film, Homelands: Malangatana, commissioned by the BBC’s Arena programme.