EXCLUSIVE: Eloïse King’s The Shadow Scholars, about the human stories behind Kenya’s fake essay mills helping students cheat on their assignments, is playing at the International Documentary Festival ...

Thousands of writers in Kenya make their living ghostwriting academic papers for wealthy Western students. It’s an industry known as “contract cheating” or “essay mills,” and is the subject of a new ...

The doc, filmed across three continents, with Steve McQueen among its executive producers, debuted at the London Film Festival and now screens at IDFA: "I'm always interested in having a holistic view ...

An underground economy built around the Kenyans ghost-writing essays for more privileged college students is brought into the light in Eloïse King's "The Shadow Scholars," a documentary executive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Global documentary sales, distribution and production company Dogwoof has unveiled the international trailer for Eloise King’s ...

The Global south sweatshops that feed the Global north’s voracious appetite for clothes have already attracted more than one committed audiovisual storyteller. But not so their intellectual ...

Four years ago, Patricia Kingori became one of the youngest women, and the youngest Black person, to be awarded a full professorship at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research as a sociologist ...

An underground economy built around the Kenyans ghost-writing essays for more privileged college students is brought into the light in Eloïse King’s “The Shadow Scholars,” a documentary executive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An underground economy built around the Kenyans ghost-writing essays for more privileged college students is brought into the ...