Christ has arisen, Alleluia (Mfurahini, Haleluya)

Christ has arisen, Alleluia (Mfurahini, Haleluya). Bernard Kyamanywa* (1938— ), translated by Howard Olson* (1922–2010). [In European collections, the English-language incipit is ‘He has arisen’.]  Tanzanian Lutheran pastor Bernard Kyamanywa composed the Swahili text ‘Mfurahini, Haleluya’ in 1966 in response to the encouragement of his missionary professors, initially Gerhard Jasper and then Howard S. Olson. According to some sources, the tune was from the Haya people in western Tanzania though there has been some discussion as to the specific traditional source (Herl, Reske, Vieker, 2019, pp. 351–354). (For a more complete discussion of the missionary context that led to the creation of...