Mboya and Evanson, who were among 34 finalists for the top prize, also won the Television Features Award.

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Tom Mboya and Evanson Nyaga's " The African Tribe in India, " which aired on Kenya's Citizen Television, was selected from among 1, 799 entries from 42 nations across the African continent on Saturday.

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The show's curators, Judy Ogana and Joy Mboya, decided to try anyway, sifting through 2, 000 photographs, most of them taken by Boniface Mwangi, a young Kenyan working for the local Daily Standard, and Yasuyoshi Chiba, a gutsy Japanese.

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