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Mika Obanda: Mosaic art

Kenyan artist Mika Obanda creates mosaics from painted eggshells. Frenny Jowi has been back to his Nairobi studio to see how Mika has coped with a big setback.

Mika Obanda creates vibrant mosaics using egg shells in his Kenyan studio. He gets the eggshells from local hotels and paints them after cleaning and shaping them. Last summer Frenny Jowi visited him as he prepared his latest collection - Trying to Blossom - for an exhibition. But then disaster struck - so Frenny has been back to find out how Mika has coped with hardship, with support from his local community.

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