One of the most fundamental human rights, the right to reproduce, stands challenged in Octavia Butler’s science fiction novel Adulthood Rites. Saved by traveling gene-trading aliens, Oankali, the dying human species are given a choice—either to live genetically transmuted and never be able to reproduce the “human” kind or live, in resistor villages, sterile and doomed to extinction. As a first taste of the “future” species, a human and alien construct, Akin is born. My paper seeks to analyze Akin, what Joan Gordon calls an “amborg” (her animal/man variant on Donna Haraway’s “cyborg,” the biotechnological modification of man and machine) whose contingent identity construct draws on his dual status of being alien (animal) and human, qualifying him for a dual citizenship, albeit with a Du Boisian touch, in both realms. Typically fluid in construction, metamorphosis both physical and mental being his rites of passage, Akin re-writes his role with a novel take on the established postcolonial vocabulary of difference and hybridity. It is my contention that the postcolonial “difference” in Akin is augmented by a Derridean “difference”—an accumulation of deferred meaning and knowledge that “adds” to the original—as hybridity moves from a mere cross-cultural contact product to one that promises to reinstate the denied human rights with a novel definition of “posthuman” (Fukuyama) hybridity; one that seeks to understand the other within him as he leads the humans to freedom.