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The feminist dilemmas of fieldwork in Africa are explored in this personal retrospective reflection on fieldwork conducted in Zimbabwe in the mid-1990s on the role of women in its anti-colonial liberation struggle. Lyons examines the challenges faced by the researcher in grappling the identity politics of ‘who can speak for whom’; the political issues of being a white, Western, middle-class, educated, female researcher examining women’s issues in Africa; and dealing with the basic logistics and travel requirements. By listening to the voices of women and enabling them to be heard within history, this chapter asks if any ‘woman’ researching in/on Africa has the emancipatory potential to challenge the dominant colonial and postcolonial discourses that have determined historical texts. |
