The Shadow Scholars

The Shadow Scholars

97 mins | Oct. 17, 2024

When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essay-writing. Thousands of young and highly educated Kenyans – overqualified and chronically underemployed – have found lucrative work writing essays for students around the globe who are able and willing to pay for them. It’s a complex portrait of an issue that undermines the foundations of a pillar of humanity: education.

The Shadow Scholars

97 mins | Oct. 17, 2024

The Shadow Scholars
When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essay-writing. Thousands of young and highly educated Kenyans – overqualified and chronically underemployed – have found lucrative work writing essays for students around the globe who are able and willing to pay for them. It’s a complex portrait of an issue that undermines the foundations of a pillar of humanity: education.
Producers Film4 Productions, British Film Institute, Field of Vision, Lammas Park, White Teeth Films
Original title The Shadow Scholars
Directors Eloise King
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