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Elsewhere I have argued against engaging in regressive practices and representations in our pains to want to know ourselves and to find our homes again (Ratele 2001). Given the persisting, intractable white masculine traditions of depicting African, black and third world peoples, it is excusable, even understandable, when one comes upon a wish to overturn every last one of these traditions. The need to challenge western masculine traditions, and to work at changing our cultural and political economy, our societies and our identities, our self and our relationships is thus clear and constant. However, these desires to overturn these traditions and, perhaps, to know ourselves as we were, or could have been, should not be allowed to blind us to the fact that all of us are capable of oppressing others. The desire to transform ourselves and our conditions must in fact stimulate a heightened, reflexive and rebellious consciousness, in particular regarding those