In only three years, Muhumuza has grown into a noticeable presence within the African literary scene with his consistent appearance in literary prizes and journals. He cites his predecessors within the East African literary culture, who provided him with a model for what an East African writer should be, as the reason for his achievements. He says:

What I love about East African fiction is how diverse it is, how different the writers are. The writers that have come before us, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Scholastica Mukasonga and the likes are the institutions upon which we can further build. Almost all the lists I’ve appeared on, and the publications, have had East African writers before and so my work wasn’t so alien.

We the new generation of East African writers have the confidence to attempt all these feats because our forerunners did so. There is no denying there is still a long way to go, and thus the current wave of East African writers must lay its bricks.

His story, ‘How to Operate the New Eco-Protect Five-in-One Climate Control Apparatus’, is set in the future and in it, an AI-powered appliance meant for combating climate change extorts and blackmails its clients. In a 2022 interview with Voertaal magazine, he says, ‘I wrote it during the pandemic during the time of climate discourse, so I was thinking about where we shall end up as a planet if nothing changes. But with faith in humanity, I believe there will be fighters.’

Muhumuza believes Afrofuturism is a tool of hope and he believes that hope is a good starting point to imagine and create new African stories. He asserts that, ‘in this almost continent-wide bleakness where many people feel disenfranchised and where many feel that beyond the rhetoric there is nothing seen to be done, we are left with the future, which is undeniably ours and not yet dirtied, to craft it how we wish it to be.’

For Muhumuza, the essence of fiction lies in its ability to convey truth, even when it takes the form of inventions such as Afrofuturistic and science fiction. He believes that the revelation of truth is the most important aspect of writing across all genres.

Muhumuza also assesses the different kinds of writings he engages with as a depiction of the kind of person he is. He says he engages with as much writing and read as widely as he finds interesting. He explains that:

I often find the best thing I’ve read in a day is an article on a science blog that I use to fact-check something I am currently writing or some well-researched piece on fashion history. I am very intentional about my reading. I read a book by an African writer at least once a month. I belong to this amazing book club called An African Bookshelf, and that’s all we read. This year, I decided to re-engage with authors that made me love writing, such as Anthony Doerr. A friend gifted me Cloud Cuckoo Land and I’m excited to start reading it. From my reading habits then I can define myself as a curious person, often contemplating the largeness and smallness of the world through what he reads.