"I wonder if he’s right, if this hatred of Jews is one of those atavistic urges we will always return to. That it is aimed as much against assimilated Jews as it is against those who keep themselves distinct. That the fear and suspicion may be even greater against those who seek to assimilate, to pass. The fraud, the impostor, the enemy in disguise, an infiltrator who appears in many forms, like Marechera’s njuzu, the manfish. I asked my father how he felt as a Jew, a White Man, and an African. He replied: “You know, we’re Africans, but we must always be the scapegoats, the aliens. My philosophy now is that you have no security in Africa. We’ve tried to kid ourselves that it was going to be different here. We’ve plowed everything back into our farms, reinvested it all. And look. It’s gone."