Mika Obanda: Mosaic art
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:35.4 | I am Franny Joey. |
| 0:36.9 | Last summer, I met the Kenyan artist Mika Obanda |
| 0:39.8 | at his studio in the slams of Nairobi |
| 0:42.6 | where I saw the mosaics and drawings |
| 0:44.9 | he was finishing off for an exhibition. |
| 0:50.0 | He's been through a lot since then. |
| 0:52.2 | I want to tell you about the challenges he's faced and how that has affected his work. |
| 0:58.3 | But first, here's a reminder of the artwork he was making, with a surprising twist. |
| 1:03.9 | His mosaics are not created using traditional tiles, but from something most of us threw away. |
| 1:10.1 | Egg shells. |
| 1:15.6 | Egg shells can do art. Deep, very meaningful art. For the past six years, he's been using this delicate shells, |
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