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Gobo Fango

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Gobo Fango (ca. 1855 – 1886) was a South African Xhosa who emigrated to the United States with a white Latter-day Saint family in 1861. While he never joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), he was one of the most prominent people of African descent in nineteenth-century Utah.

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