Mwenda Njoka

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Mwenda Njoka
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Mwenda Njoka is a Kenyan investigative journalist and winner of CNN Journalist of the Year Award. [1] He was one of the seventeen finalists of the 2004 CNN African Journalist of the Year Competition Launched under Sunday Nation/Daily Nation of Kenya in 2004. [2] He is also winner of Kalasha Film & TV Award [3] for his work on the documentary on the late JM Kariuki, a populist Kenyan legislator assassinated under mysterious circumstances in 1975. Njoka is also the founder of non-profit media development organization; Africa Centre for Investigative Journalism (ACIJ). [4] Currently working with Royal Media Services and is behind the Citizen TV Sunday Live news program "Who Owns Kenya". [5] He has previously worked with the Standard Newspapers where he won the 2003 Journalist of the Year award under the auspices of Kenya Union of Journalists, Nation Media Group.

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