Page 64 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 10

Lifestyle
CULTURE

It would be all-too-easy to blame COVID for the dis-
connections in our lives, wouldn’t it? The warm hugs, the
genuine sincere smiles, the companionship of those who
uplift our spirits. But it would be a deception to claim that it
was COVID’s fault. COVID came instead to show us what
it is that we have lost, by forcing us away from the lifestyles
that we have chosen. Full of rush and care and stress and
burdens of debt and disconnections from loved ones and
friends and family, in pursuit of what people have called
success, instead of the sweet simplicity of authentic living.
But what if genuine, simple living were possible? Welcome
to the possibility. Shibero Akatsa has found a way and she
has broken out of the mold that the world has tried to force
everybody to live in. She constructed her home out of the
earth according to a design that was birthed in her imag-
ination. And the cost? In a neighborhood with so much
pressure? Barely nothing. She has broken the stigma
that modern living has told you was impossible
to break, but would you dare to take a walk
away from what you have called life and enter
into a normal where you could simply live
and life was simply sweet? Come with us on
this journey as we explore how she did it and
unearth the thing in your heart that secretly
desires to do it.
(The link to the full length video interview is
at the end of this article)

Tell us about the Garden of Eden and how it
came to be.
We bought this plot of land in 1998, at the time we
were still in the UK. We then had one of the houses
built, but there was pretty much nothing here apart
from the wild grass. We moved back to Kenya and
I really got into gardening. I love gardening, I love
landscape, I am also a totally outdoorsy person and so
Interview with connected to nature and that is how I believe I came
to know the God, our God, my Father, the Creator.
When I was thinking about, Father what name can
Shibero I give this place? He dropped it into my spirit, “The
Garden of Eden” and that is for a very good reason
because when I first got to know the Lord, when I
Akatsa became born again, my favoritest book was Genesis
because of all the creation and the nature. I was so
fascinated by how God created.

and it has just become that, it has become more of a
Author and Certified Clinical Psychotherapist That’s how it came to be called The Garden of Eden
healing space.

When I was practicing a lot, my psychotherapy, when

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