Documentary

Shadow Scholars

When Oxford Professor Patricia Kingori travels to Kenya, she uncovers the murky, multi-billion global underworld of essay-writing. Thousands of young and highly educated Kenyans – overqualified and chronically underemployed – have found lucrative work writing essays for students around the globe who are able and willing to pay for them. It’s a complex portrait of an issue that undermines the foundations of a pillar of humanity: education.

DIRECTOR AND WRITER: ELOÏSE KING (WHITETEETH)
Produced By Eloise King, Anna Smith Tenser (LAMMAS PARK), Bona Orakwue and Tabs Breese
Executive Produced By Steve McQueen and Patricia Kingori
Executive Producers: Ben Coren, Sacha Mirzoeff, Ollie Madden (Film4), Anna Godas, Oli Harbottle
(Dogwoof), Shanida Scotland and Hannah Bush Bailey (BFI/ Doc Society)

PUBLICATIONS

Falsified, substandard
and fake Medicines

Kingori, P., Grietens, K. P., Abimbola, S., & Ravinetto, R. (2023). Uncertainties about the quality of medical products globally: lessons from multidisciplinary research. BMJ Global Health, 6(Suppl 3), e012902.

Atuire, C. A., Addison, G., Owusu, S. A., & Kingori, P. (2021). “Covid Cure (1)”: Anas’s Investigative Journalism and the Ethics of Uncovering Fakes in African Spaces. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 33(3), 312-319.

Kingori P., Peeters Grietens K, Abimbola S and Ravinetto, R. (2020) Poor-quality medical products: social and ethical issues in accessing ‘quality’ in global health. BMJ Global Health;4:e002151.

Fakes in knowledge production

Alenichev, A., Peeters Grietens, K., Shaffer, J., de Laat, S., Solomon, N., Parker, M., … Kingori, P. (2024). Global health photography behind the façade of empowerment and decolonisation. Global Public Health, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2024.2394811

Kingori, P. (2021). Kenya’s “fake essay” writers and the light they shine on assumptions of shadows in knowledge production. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 33(3), 297-304.

Alenichev, A., de Laat, S., Solomon, N., Suwalowska, H., Peeters Grietens, K., Parker, M., & Kingori, P. (2024). Assembling a global health image: Ethical and pragmatic tensions through the lenses of photographers. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(2), e0002540.

Kingori, P. (2021). Unmuting conversations on fakes in African spaces. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 33(3), 239-250.

Déom, N., Vanderslott, S., Kingori, P., & Martin, S. (2023). Online on the frontline: A longitudinal social media analysis of UK healthcare workers’ attitudes to COVID-19 vaccines using the 5C framework. Social Science & Medicine, 339, 116313.

Mills, D., Branford, A., Inouye, K., Robinson, N.,
& Kingori, P. (2021). “Fake” Journals and the Fragility of Authenticity: Citation Indexes, “Predatory” Publishing, and the African Research Ecosystem. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 33(3), 276-296.

Bell, K., Kingori, P., & Mills, D. (2024). Scholarly publishing, boundary processes, and the problem of fake peer reviews. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 49(1), 78-104.

Alenichev, A., Kingori, P., Shaffer, J., & Grietens, K. P. (2024). The elephant in the room: reflecting on text-to-image generative AI and global health images. BMJ Global Health, 9(4), e015601.

Alenichev, A., Kingori, P., & Grietens, K. P. (2023). Reflections before the storm: the AI reproduction of biased imagery in global health visuals. The Lancet Global Health, 11(10), e1496-e1498.

Kuhn, G., Kingori, P., & Grietens, K. P. (2022). Misdirection–Magic, Psychology and its application. Science & Technology Studies, 35(2), 13-29.

Kingori, P. and Gerrets, R. (2019) Why the pseudo matters to global health. Critical Public Health. 29(4):379-389, DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2019.1605155

Kingori, P and Douglas-Jones, R. (2020) Revelation or confirmation? The ‘fake probe’ in global health. Medical Anthropology Theory 7(2), 214-229. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.7.2.776