Social Justice Film Series: The Shadow Scholars

Oxford’s Patricia Kingori investigates Nairobi’s 40,000 "shadow scholars"—underemployed grads ghostwriting papers for Global North students.
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Captivated by the hidden, multi-billion dollar "fake essay" industry, Patricia Kingori—the youngest woman and Black professor in Oxford's 925-year history—enters the world of the "shadow scholars."
The Shadow Scholars investigates the lives of roughly 40,000 highly educated, underemployed Kenyans in Nairobi who make ends meet by ghostwriting academic papers for students in the Global North. The Shadow Scholars raises fundamental questions about global labor disparities, higher education economics, privilege, and the systemic pressures surrounding contemporary academic integrity.