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'The talent is undeniably there': Inside Kenya's fake essay industry making billions
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9:30Now PlayingA hidden industry that's generating billions of dollars a year has been exposed in a new documentary.
'Shadow Scholars' follows an Oxford professor, as she travels to Nairobi to meet some of the highly educated Kenyans earning a living by writing essays for students in the UK and around the world.
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