Unburied S1E3: The Swedish Curse

Sound Africa by ARC

Jun 25, 202534:28Society & Culture

In the 1970s, a bookish young man was sorting shelves in a dusty library in apartheid South Africa. He noticed something strange — the way books were classified looked eerily similar to the way people were categorized ou...

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