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Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Author of Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa.
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Johannesburg, city, Gauteng province, South Africa. It is the country’s chief industrial and financial metropolis. One of the youngest of the world’s major cities, Johannesburg was founded in 1886, following the discovery of gold. The city was initially part of the Transvaal, an independent Afrikaner, or Boer, republic that later became one of the four provinces of South Africa. Today the city is a part of Gauteng (a Sotho word meaning “Place of Gold”), one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The geography of Johannesburg reflects nearly a century of racially driven social engineering that reached a climax under ...(100 of 4664 words)

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