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Between Knowing and Imagining: What Space for Feminism in Scholarship on Africa?

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What does it mean to talk about the relationship between knowing and imagining? More than any apparently external frontier, it is the capacity to go beyond what is given, to fantasise, to create new possibilities that link what is desired with what is known, that will shape the content of knowledge production and its potential uses. In the quest to transcend existing intellectual frontiers, the sheer expanse of the human imagination and the ability to engage the emotions as well as the intellect in the process of knowledge production, become subjects for reflection and analysis. To do this is no easy matter; it involves addressing, rather than evacuating, ambiguities, innuendos, contradictions, silences and gaps as integral to the issues that warrant sustained study. As Marjorie Mbilinyi points out, creative and innovative work involves "more imagination, inspiration and guesswork" (1992: 53) than treading the well-worn paths of scientific orthodoxy.

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