Munira Hussein is a writer and an author. She pursued B.Sc. Microbiology at Kenyatta University. She is the author of Highland Cactus and Unfit for Society (a short story collection) and A Curve of Darkness (poetry) and co-author of When a Stranger Called, English Literacy Textbooks for Kenya’s Grades 1, 2, and 3, English Literacy Revision Encyclopedia, Grade 3, Secondary English 1 and 3 for South Sudan all published by Longhorn Publishers, Pace in Poetry, a poetry collection for use in secondary schools in Kenya by Booklyst Press Limited and Through the Journey of Hope, a poetry anthology by the Writers Guild of Kenya. Her short story, Powder in the Wind was shortlisted for the African Writers Award in 2018. She was also shortlisted for the Writing Gender Residency by Huza Press and Goethe Institute Kigali.
Highland Cactus
In searingly memorable prose, Munira Hussein’s stories explore everything from intergenerational family relationships, life in Kenya’s northeast, complicated friendships, relationships, loss, pain, trauma, survival, and what constitutes home, including home within one’s self. Emotionally evocative, provoking, thoughtful, and wise, this short story collection is written with gorgeous style, making it one established fans will not want to miss and one which will bring a whole new world to readers new to Hussein’s work. A compelling ‘must read’.
Joanna Cockerline,
Lecturer, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies,
University of British Columbia.
KShs 1,160
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