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5/7/2025
When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essa | dG1fMERRenhtaFV2Tk0
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What these people are doing is so-called academic writing.
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So they're writing essays for students in Global North universities.
00:19
A lot of this online labor is happening in places where there's a strong sort of IT outsourcing industry.
00:29
Even on the global scale, Kenya is standing out.
00:36
Kenya is a hot spot.
00:39
So of all of the online labor work that's going on in Kenya, 72% of that is engaged in writing
00:51
and translation.
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Actually, we know it's just writing essays for students in Global North universities.
01:02
To be fair, I mean, I don't know how many million students there are in UK and US alone.
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And if even just 1% of them uses the services of this academic writing industry, then there's
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going to be a lot of demand.
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There are 40,000 people in Nairobi, in Nairobi alone, who is doing this.
01:33
Who are those people?
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Those are humans, right?
01:35
That's like, what's their story?
01:36
How did they even get to do this?
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How did they even get to do this?
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How did they even get to do this?
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