The Shadow Scholars | movie | 2024 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essa | dG1fMERRenhtaFV2Tk0

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00:00What these people are doing is so-called academic writing.

00:11So they're writing essays for students in Global North universities.

00:19A lot of this online labor is happening in places where there's a strong sort of IT outsourcing industry.

00:29Even on the global scale, Kenya is standing out.

00:36Kenya is a hot spot.

00:39So of all of the online labor work that's going on in Kenya, 72% of that is engaged in writing

00:51and translation.

00:52Actually, we know it's just writing essays for students in Global North universities.

01:02To be fair, I mean, I don't know how many million students there are in UK and US alone.

01:07And if even just 1% of them uses the services of this academic writing industry, then there's

01:15going to be a lot of demand.

01:22There are 40,000 people in Nairobi, in Nairobi alone, who is doing this.

01:33Who are those people?

01:34Those are humans, right?

01:35That's like, what's their story?

01:36How did they even get to do this?

01:37How did they even get to do this?

01:38How did they even get to do this?