The skyline of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, with the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa. The city is one of the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the world, and is also the worlds largest city not situated on a river, lake, or coastline. (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma via Getty Images)
Cities like Johannesburg, South Africa, are often presented as a site of trouble.
In so many instances, these spaces appear as nothing more than locations for the collective fears of the north.
Although fear is one way to describe this conition, anxiety may be a more useful description.