2025
(Philadelphia Premiere)Feature Documentary

The Shadow Scholars

A film still from The Shadow Scholars shows the back of four Black men walking along a sidewalk. One of them wears a black graduation cap and gown along with a blue lei and gold stole.

Tens of thousands of young and well-educated Kenyans are hired online by undergraduates and doctoral students at Western universities to write their essays and theses in a multibillion-dollar underground industry. Oxford professor Patricia Kingori embarks on a search for these “shadow scholars.”

Thank you to our screening partners: Free Library of Philadelphia, Firelight Media, Department of Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College

Tickets

In Person

11:30AM EDTSuzanne Roberts Theatre

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