He sings the song in 3 language. Todii (Shona), Senzeni (Ndebele) and What shall we do (English). All meaning the same thing. The song was realeased around 1998, the peak period for HIV and AIDS. It briefly but accurately captures the trials and tribulations of an individual, family, or society as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic!
It talks about married woman have no way to refuse the husband knowing he paid bride price. Even if he has Aids. So he is is asking what shall we do with this sickness.
Back then Africa was one small village. There weren't that many notable musicians so we listened to music from All around Africa. Much love from 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 Kenya
As a Zimbabwean Im overwhelmed with emotions reading through the comments section how Kenyans, South Africans and indeed many African Nations loved and embrace this song and Dr Oliver Mtukudzi like they came from their respective countries. Music does indeed cut across colonial boundaries and unites Generations. Heres to African Unity and an Africa without borders
Just heard the sobg from a local radio station here in Kenya and decided to watch it on TH-cam. I'm in love with this song. It's like I'm hearing it for the first song. Well done Oliver mtukudzi
I'm a guitarist from Uganda and would venture to add that every performance we have with my band this song is must play or it would be requested. Such great talent!
Eish when i was i was young i was alwys imagining the far horizon Zimbabwe is through this song, like its in heaven ... thinking back to those years of 1998 we were living a nice life not worrying much that the future wil be lik this...love from Namibia...what shal we do we are getting poorer
Kwa niaba ya Taifa langu Tanzania 🇹🇿 Napenda kutoa pole kwa Familia ya Oliver Mtukudzi na Taifa la Zimbabwe kwa ujumla. Mungu ampe pumziko la milele. 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
it's about someone is infected with HIV and have a partner but that one between the two is sick and is on medication and not tell the partner and yet you claim to say you love your partner.
When you close your eyes while listening to this song and try to flashback you rem everything in you're childhood and that's the beauty of this song 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
Naked Dressing ❌ Drugs ❌ Expensive things ❌ Flexing ❌ Pure talent ✔ Uniqueness ✔ Lyrics ✔ Goosebumps ✔ Great video ✔ Beats ✔ Loyalty ✔ It feels wonderful to be African
Ticho Cherotich In this song Tuku (Oliver Mtukudzi) argues that it is so devastating for a wife to contend with HIV/AIDS and the likelihood of a risky pregnancy apparently because the husband silenced his HIV+ status. Tuku calls on society to discuss ways that this issue can be address forthwith.
What shall we do? But sisi tulikuwa tunasema, 'wacha wivu,' hiyo ilikuwa baada ya kupewa sumuni na dad alafu ndugu yako anaona wivu. Good memories indeed. If you have same tbt to mine, gonga like
Recalling those Early 2000s while on my childhood going to school in Kenya🇰🇪,i used to hear the song on KBC radio taifa each morning,,it was just sweet singing it,thank you Oliver for always making our early mornings to school ,,it just made our days........Hope every kenyan remembers and enjoyed the song, It's forever a rest in peace Oliver🕊️🕊️🕊️this far is God🙏🙏🙏
During my school days back in the days here in Kenya, this song was like an alarm for the school going children as radio stations used to play it very early in the morning, everyday.....memories are still fresh in 2021.. rest in peace legend
I’m 23 and my eyes are teary listening to these African classics ,brings back so many childhood memories,reminds me of family members and friends that have passed and how different things are ,I miss the good old days 🥺
Bro am also 22 and I remember that song as a kid going to school and we are also gonna get old and leave the earth as our loved ones did it's so painful
Rest in eternal peace Legend. God bless your soul Oliver. To our Kenyan artists whining in the #playkenyanmusic campaign, let your content win our hearts rather than seeking for empathy. We loved Todii because it appealed to us and not that someone begged us to love it.
Unfortunately our Legend passed today 23 January 2019😔😭😭 my Heart is broken, lala kahle Mr Oliver💓👉 I'll always love you music and i have most of ur Albums😔
If I am to be reminded of my late dad's last voice, I listen to this song. He used to sing to me on the phone when he was away on a peace mission in siera Leon as he was in a army. He used to translate it to me and this will sit inside since it has a special place in my heart. Sending love from kenya
Special thanks to your late dad and a those who fought very hard to restore peace in our country Sierra Leone. May your dad's soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in perfect peace.
Proud African from Uganda 🇺🇬🇺🇬 these songs are being played in bars, parties, club's here in Uganda alot ,and we seriously love them ..they contain alot of memories of old days
What I really love about Kenya,is that they play and love alot of African music even when they don't understand the language. They don't care. They will sing the song, not even check the meaning most of the time, pronounce the words wrong, but carry along the love.
As i go throught the comments i love to read and feel different people's stories, and just feel the mystery of life while listening to the song... your was even more beautiful coz it pulled me back to thinking of the love story of ur parents, like how did they come to meet about, to now that you are here... and it can go further deeper thinking of their parents and their parents and so on, and you just realise life is a one beautiful mystery of which we are beyond blessed to be part of it, live it, and experience it, with all it's ups and downs
Quite nostalgic. The song used to play every morning at Radio Citizen as I prepared myself to go to school. Lot of love from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪. It brings up the memories of two decades ago.
This song came out during the Era when having HiV was like a death penalty. He is basically saying that what shall we do to get the cure for this pandemic. If there is anyone who can have the ideas on the solution to this crisis, please come forward. He goes on to say: it is so painful to be raped by your married partner, knowing that you have HiV. Above all, there is no solution after death, we want the solution now.
Lesotho, Kenya , Namibia etc really appreciate this song even now in 2022 nearly 2023 in 3 days time ... Africa is full of one love , God bless Africa.
being Zambian is funny i grew knowing this man was Zambian his songs would play rather still playing to date on Zambian radio stations and i used to think he is from eastern Zambia infact the way us Zambians sing his songs it will forever be difficult to convince me he is Zimbabwean "washa widu"
If you are born in Kenya in 90s you must be familiar with this song. Used to play in KBC radio every morning when we used to go to school. I miss old life
Reading comments here, damn, i feel blessed to be a Zimbabwean and to have lived in the era of Tuku and Thomas Mapfumo. thank you all for the heart warming comments😍
Grew up listening to this song, i still listen to it, i love it I'm enjoying it...You're a legend Tuku. The angels must be very happy have to have you among them.May your soul rest in peace.. Love from Kenya 🇰🇪 💞
Feeling nostalgic how I miss my childhood memories. This used to be my waking up song. I remember vividly how my late papa could prepare us ' ugali' with fried liver and mama doing the packing of milk and rice as that is what we could have In school. Maaan so much beautiful memories over there. Late 1990s it was.
Marvin Carter OLIVER MTUKUDZI TODII WHAT SHALL WE DO Chorus: Hooo todini senzeni what shall we do What shall we do , tingadii Senzenjani, what shall we do what shall we do Zvinorwadza sei kurera rufu mumaoko how painful it is to look after someone u know is gonna die Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS Zvinorwadza sei kuchengeta rufu mumaoko this person has gotten something that will lead to their death Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS Bva zvamabata pamuviri pasina raramo death has been made manifest Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS Bva zvapatumbuka pamuviri pasina raramo this is a condition that will not spare them Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS (Chorus) Senzeni what shall we do Tingadii what shall we do What shall we do (chorus) Zvinorwadza sei kubhinywa ewaugere naye, how painful it is for the person you live with to murder you Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS Zvinorwadza sei kubhinywa neakabvisa pfuma how painful for the one who paid your bride price to kill you Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS Achiziva unahwo hutachiwana when they know they are infected Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS Ende uchiziva Unahwo utachiwana when they have AIDS Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS (chorus) Seri kweguva hakuna munamato varume tapererwa (utachiwana) there is no repentence or turning back afetr death Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas Kana uinawo utachiwana Seri kweguva hakuna munamato varume tapererwa (utachiwana) there is no repentence or turning back afetr death Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS Seri kweguva hakuna muteuro mambo tapererwa (utachiwana) Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS Seri kweguva hakuna muteuro mambo tapererwa (utachiwana) there is no repentence or turning back afetr death Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS Seri kweguva hakuna munamato varume tapererwa (utachiwana) there is no repentence or turning back afetr death Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS Seri kweguva hakuna muteuro mambo tapererwa (utachiwana) there is no repentence or turning back afetr death Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS (chorus)
Had a neighbour in soweto who used to play his songs and as kids we would sing not knowing the lyrics. Til I would visit my fam in Venda 🇿🇦 and almost every house played his music❤🤗 I think mostly coz we next to Zimbabwe than any province in south Africa
This song reminds me of the mornings i would wake up wuth my mum in 1999 and listen to KBC before we went to school. Over 20 years later, I still get goosebumps listening to it. From Kenya, I love him
Much love from Namibia! I was very young (6 years) when HIV hit the continent, Southern Africa in particular. It was scary 😟. I say, may their souls rest in peace. We truly lost loved once. What was more painful was seeing them die without being able to do anything about their excruciating deaths.
Todii? Means what shall we do Heee senzeni? Means what shall we do It’s painful to keep death in your hands Chorus, what can you do when you have the virus It’s painful to be raped by the one you love Chorus …What can you do when you have the virus. You bud a pregnancy without hope of term What can you do when you have the virus They know they gave you the virus Chorus, what can you do when you have the virus Even you know you have the virus Chorus, what can you do when you have the virus This was the time when HIV had no cure. Situation was hopeless
Swahili nations 🇰🇪🇧🇮🇷🇼🇸🇸🇹🇿🇺🇬we all grew up singing along this song and we never cared what we were saying This song hit differently ❤️❤️❤️ The guitar ❤️❤️❤️
I never knew the legend's song was about AIDS .It was only after his death that uncle fred enlightened me about the song,,,,,R.I.P my legend,am still mourning from kenya ,,,,,,,,,safiri salama tutaonana badae
All the way from Nigeria, My deepest and most heartfelt sympathies for this tragic loss. Last year we lost Hugh Masekela, and now another legend is gone.
He sings the song in 3 language. Todii (Shona), Senzeni (Ndebele) and What shall we do (English). All meaning the same thing. The song was realeased around 1998, the peak period for HIV and AIDS. It briefly but accurately captures the trials and tribulations of an individual, family, or society as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic!
Thank you so much. Would you kindly Translate more
Thank you ... Loved it but never understood it
More translation
Thanks for a good translate!
Thanks for the narration. At least I get the perspective now.
I'm Zimbabwean but eishh I'm seeing the love from Kenya and other African countries. That's what i call one love. God bless Africa♥
Some love from Uganda 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 tooo
We love Oliver Mtukudzi. Rest in peace papa.
África Forever
We are One
🇰🇪 ❤️
I'm Kenyan, I love this song! grew up singing "wacha wivu" instead of "What shall we do" 😂😂😂
Kumbe na Mimi umenijuza hapa muda wote najua acha wivu
Brian Kimani hahaha me too
Kumbe i wasn't alone haha
Mimi Pia 🤣🤣
Me too😊
REST IN PEACE AFRICAN LEGEND
I grew up listening to this song every single morning as I prepared myself to go to school..🇰🇪 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
KBC Radio taifa.Those days...
🇿🇼🇰🇪👌👌👌👌👌
You got me I swear
i can relate
You got me too..
Kenyans we see you hey ..Thanks for the love ....all the way from Zimbabwe ...keep our Kipchoge safe
We surely will. Appreciated
Enough Respect from Kenya
🇰🇪🙌🙌🙌♥️❤️
Thanks, We love Zimbabwe music. Kipchoge is well protected
We love you too. Kipchoge is safe.
The way Kenyans appreciate other Artists from other countries is really commendable ❤️❤️
Only in Kenya 🇰🇪 🔥🔥🔥
Kenya is on my bucket list next year
@@nanmbt5047 you’re welcome
This is their behaviour and dont Support their Own
@@kevgithu4221 if our artists don’t produce quality what do you expect?
2022, As a Kenyan this song is still my favourite🇰🇪🇰🇪 Oliver is still with us
Amen
vibe so lit although i dont understsnd much love from kenya
🏳🌈🏳🌈🏳🌈
The song hits different at 6AM
My favourite too. Though I had to get someone to translate. I love it
It talks about married woman have no way to refuse the husband knowing he paid bride price. Even if he has Aids. So he is is asking what shall we do with this sickness.
Back then Africa was one small village. There weren't that many notable musicians so we listened to music from All around Africa. Much love from 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 Kenya
Nowadays it's sex this sex, that. Kill this ,kill that😢
Had miscarriage yeasteday and dis song was the only song dat comfort me and give me strength to move on 💔
I'm sorry you had to go through that dear💐. God always has a reason
Take heart sister. God will bless you with another one.
Stay strong 🙃
Sending hugs and strength
Hugs dear,am so sorry
Rest in peace forever Mtukudzi
who is listening in 2021
im still listening to the song
🇰🇪🇰🇪Here listening 13 july
I am here in 2021🇿🇦.
Still listening
@@theniftyhairwigs 16/07/21
u know a song is good when you enjoy the music and yet you dont understand anything.🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
exactly man
I definetly agree :-)
Absolutely
haha so true I bet even Van Dam would dance to this SA maskandi song that says lets go kill Van dam not knowing what it says all he knows its nice
about aids
Here in 2024 I feel like am seven again much love from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪
From SA 🇿🇦
from Uganda 🇺🇬
If only Zimbabweans knew how much Kenyans 🇰🇪 love this song
I have been to Kenya buddie. I was surprised
Everyone loves this song
And mostly we don't know the lyrics neither what they mean 🤭🤭🤭
But we say " wacha wivu " 💀🙄
@@emmiemwangangi9883 and we still sing along
I'm mexican and I love this song. R.I.P Oliver Mtukudzi 🖤
You definitely have an ear for good music. God bless!
@@naomiii9788 ❤❤❤
Olivia died?
@@robertkibwana5383 yes Oliver Mtukudzi died about two years ago
@@KevinSila what?????
Who's here in 2021?we can't live this behind 🇹🇿
🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 right here.
We not leaving this behind🇿🇦
Is cant...what shall do!!!
🇧🇼 but watching from 🇨🇦
I'm here🇿🇼
Still kicking ✊
There's a special place in my heart for Zimbabwe. I lived there in 1996 and 1997, taught at Mzilikazi High School in Bulawayo. Those were the days.
Please come back 🙏
Evans I think the pipo are friendly but they don't have leaders they haver rulers
Where are you now?
@@BigSamAviation I live in Tbilisi, Georgia.
@@alan-the-maths-tutor that's very great. Hopefully you're doing fine there.
Who's here in 2020? We can't leave this behind 🇰🇪!
Samwel Omondi me me😩🇰🇪
🇰🇪🇦🇪
Samwel Omondi 🔥🔥2020🇹🇿
Samwel Omondi 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿2020
Kenya 🇰🇪 tupo 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
Much love from South Africa. 🇿🇦
These songs prove that Africa shouldn't be divided by manmade borders.
The Berlin conference still lives today 😫
Qiniso mfethu
I'm from Zim 🇿🇼 and absolutely agree
@@kgosi_ramo5567 Berlin conference was a Roman Catholic Antichrist church's work
Problem is South Africans always startn fights with other Africans
As a Zimbabwean Im overwhelmed with emotions reading through the comments section how Kenyans, South Africans and indeed many African Nations loved and embrace this song and Dr Oliver Mtukudzi like they came from their respective countries. Music does indeed cut across colonial boundaries and unites Generations. Heres to African Unity and an Africa without borders
Just heard the sobg from a local radio station here in Kenya and decided to watch it on TH-cam. I'm in love with this song. It's like I'm hearing it for the first song. Well done Oliver mtukudzi
I'm a guitarist from Uganda and would venture to add that every performance we have with my band this song is must play or it would be requested. Such great talent!
I'm from South Africa and have many memories from this song and other songs from this legend. Growing up in SA every household would play this jam🔥🔥🔥🔥
Eish when i was i was young i was alwys imagining the far horizon Zimbabwe is through this song, like its in heaven ... thinking back to those years of 1998 we were living a nice life not worrying much that the future wil be lik this...love from Namibia...what shal we do we are getting poorer
I love it and I’m from England :)
Nairobi Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🦁anyone?
present
@@georgemuiru7284 YEAH!
one of my favourite..real talent!!
Here
Am here
Who is listening here while in Quarantine #coronavirus2020 🇰🇪🖤🖤🖤🖤
Here 2 April 7:48
I'm listening on day 7 of lockdown
💃💃💃💃
😂😂😂😂😂
What shall we do😢😢😢all over the glob😢😢😢😢
Kwa niaba ya Taifa langu Tanzania 🇹🇿
Napenda kutoa pole kwa Familia ya Oliver Mtukudzi na Taifa la Zimbabwe kwa ujumla.
Mungu ampe pumziko la milele.
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Mwamdanga nice one
Wilson Lamz K Mambwe thank you 🙏
Zimefika baba!
Rock City Native Pamoja sana
tunashukuru sana
I can't understand the lyrics but I really love Oliver's songs. Rest in peace Legend! Much love from Zambia 🇿🇲
He sung about hiv aids
n chipolo polo playing today.
it's about someone is infected with HIV and have a partner but that one between the two is sick and is on medication and not tell the partner and yet you claim to say you love your partner.
When you close your eyes while listening to this song and try to flashback you rem everything in you're childhood and that's the beauty of this song 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
On point😢😢😢🤝🤝🤝
I tell you
I remember those days we eat porridge without sugar, enjoying the love our mom in poverty but happy😍😍
2022 still one of my best. From Kenya
KBC radio ya taifa.... memories.
June 2021 Kenyans in the house? This song was my dad's favourite when I was about 7, 20 years later I still listen to it.
Tuko wengi, running away from our own Mbogi sijui njege "music" 😂😂
July.
What is the meaning of this song am from zambia
Wow
@@reflections9409 😂😂😂😂😂, i hate music of today... its just noise...
Anyone else brought here by nostalgia and the sad news😔💔 RIP Tuku, our legend🇿🇼
Me so sad may he rest in eternal peace
@@weldonngeno7592 yeah from Kenya
Sad
Sad a legend bows out, he lives on 💔💔
Me
As a swazi i grew up with this song being played by grandfather and uncles. This is amazing.. love from the Kingdom of Eswatini 🇸🇿🇸🇿
❤❤❤
❤❤
Very nice
My military passout parade was made exquisite by our military band playing this song,,,,will never forget the joy I felt ..🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
🇰🇪🇰🇪❤️
Beautiful very proud 🇿🇼 because of Tuku and your love..... Love to you too
KAF,KN&KA🙌❤️🇰🇪
Respect always to the Kenyan army
And its a funeral song! Talks about the untold suffering HIV has brought to our communities in Africa
Naked Dressing ❌
Drugs ❌
Expensive things ❌
Flexing ❌
Pure talent ✔
Uniqueness ✔
Lyrics ✔
Goosebumps ✔
Great video ✔
Beats ✔
Loyalty ✔
It feels wonderful to be African
Lovely 😎
@@joshuakafwimbi5510 🤗
Before we coppied .
No killings
@@josephmuigai444 he died an authentic artist with an authentic sound
From Kenya with love, Oliver's legacy still lives! 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪❤️❤️
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Kwani Hawa wote ni wakenya 🤣🤣 kusoma too comments
This legend didn't die, he left the stage. Much respect from Kenya 💕
I don't know what he is saying , but i grew up listening to this because my dad would play it over & over. With love from Kenya ... ❤️❤️
i like the song too i dont know the meaning. n way how are Ticho
Ticho Cherotich In this song Tuku (Oliver Mtukudzi) argues that it is so devastating for a wife to contend with HIV/AIDS and the likelihood of a risky pregnancy apparently because the husband silenced his HIV+ status. Tuku calls on society to discuss ways that this issue can be address forthwith.
Ticho Cherotich he will peforming at korogo festivals next month
I don't get tired of that husky voice of Oliver, good music is timeless
2017 yo🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
What shall we do? But sisi tulikuwa tunasema, 'wacha wivu,' hiyo ilikuwa baada ya kupewa sumuni na dad alafu ndugu yako anaona wivu. Good memories indeed.
If you have same tbt to mine, gonga like
Na shezi weee
Same here 😌😌 I thought it was wacha wivu
🤣🤣🤣 i tell you. Memories
Aty shenzi weee🤣🤣🤣Aaaahhh
Enzi ya sumuni ulikuwepo au umetuunganishia humo humo tu 😂😀
Deepest condolences to the nation of Zimbabwe and ideed to all Africans.. from Johannesburg🇿🇦 R.I.P ntate Oliver Mtukudzi
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Recalling those Early 2000s while on my childhood going to school in Kenya🇰🇪,i used to hear the song on KBC radio taifa each morning,,it was just sweet singing it,thank you Oliver for always making our early mornings to school ,,it just made our days........Hope every kenyan remembers and enjoyed the song, It's forever a rest in peace Oliver🕊️🕊️🕊️this far is God🙏🙏🙏
true kabisa
Same experience here
Good old days 😊😊
Any one from Uganda enjoying this beautiful song🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬. I just understand one word in the whole song "what shall we do"
During my school days back in the days here in Kenya, this song was like an alarm for the school going children as radio stations used to play it very early in the morning, everyday.....memories are still fresh in 2021.. rest in peace legend
😂😂😂😂😂 Early morning
Pale KBC radio at around 5am
@@charlesndunda2909 😄😄😄yeah
True every morning daily basis around 5am,mostly by titi nagwara radio citizen
U remind me of KBC Every morning, time flies
Who's listening while in Quarantine?🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Me
Me too
What's the meaning this song?
Desmond Sitakwa I think he’s singing about the devastation HIV and aids has brought to Zimbabwe.
Nna
I'm Zambian, born and raised..
Man, this song reminds me of my Dad and my childhood 😭😭😭
Music is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
I’m 23 and my eyes are teary listening to these African classics ,brings back so many childhood memories,reminds me of family members and friends that have passed and how different things are ,I miss the good old days 🥺
Lols your my age mate and these songs remind me of my childhood my mom used to play them a lot. Am here teary as well.
You will never walk alone 😢😢am here with you 🤝🤝🤝🤝
Enjoy now to the maximum 😎 one day it will be good old days
same
Bro am also 22 and I remember that song as a kid going to school and we are also gonna get old and leave the earth as our loved ones did it's so painful
Rest in eternal peace Legend. God bless your soul Oliver.
To our Kenyan artists whining in the #playkenyanmusic campaign, let your content win our hearts rather than seeking for empathy. We loved Todii because it appealed to us and not that someone begged us to love it.
His great music lives on
OUR LEGEND 💛💛💛
th-cam.com/video/cj41_e2RSRU/w-d-xo.html
He lives on, His legacy lives on😭😭
RIP legend😭😭😭
Unfortunately our Legend passed today 23 January 2019😔😭😭 my Heart is broken, lala kahle Mr Oliver💓👉 I'll always love you music and i have most of ur Albums😔
He has died on the Same day Bra Hugh Masekela died, one year ago.
It's soo sad
Yr language has so many Swahili words la-la is sleep
@@millielyysh6831 Africa is one and thats common with bantu languages
@@millielyysh6831 it means sleep in isindebele too
I'm a Kenyan,🇰🇪🇰🇪 who's in love with this masterpiece . I can't hear nor understand any word in the lyrics but I don't care ❤
oooh todiii,senzeni what shall we do,what a song by Oliver,Kenyans in the house drop a like
If I am to be reminded of my late dad's last voice, I listen to this song. He used to sing to me on the phone when he was away on a peace mission in siera Leon as he was in a army. He used to translate it to me and this will sit inside since it has a special place in my heart. Sending love from kenya
Special thanks to your late dad and a those who fought very hard to restore peace in our country Sierra Leone. May your dad's soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in perfect peace.
🇸🇱🇸🇱 send ♥️♥️♥️to u
sorry queen girl
Army child here too only that my dad never sang to me haha he served in Sierra Leone too
Can somebody translate for me please, I love that song. From Haiti🇭🇹
This voice is one of my childhood memories....every morning pale KBC ,this song was like our alarm🇰🇪
Indeed
Pale KBC🤣🤣
Same I first heard his songs in 2015 and I was 8 and now I'm 14 good times
Wow! life was good
Alarm indeed..."todii...wacha wivu😄"
Proud African from Uganda 🇺🇬🇺🇬 these songs are being played in bars, parties, club's here in Uganda alot ,and we seriously love them ..they contain alot of memories of old days
The spirit of Ubuntu "bantu" lives in the songs
we need some one to translate this in luganda so as ppl learn and care not playing and dancing in lodges wn u dnt kno patterns aids status
This song is like a national anthem here in Kenya
RIP OLIVER I REMEMBER WAKING UP THE YOUNG DAYS OF MY LIFE AND BOOM THE SONG WAS ON THE RADIO@KBC
@@mymore195 am a DJ
Nakwambia
Rip Oliver
What I really love about Kenya,is that they play and love alot of African music even when they don't understand the language. They don't care. They will sing the song, not even check the meaning most of the time, pronounce the words wrong, but carry along the love.
Still adoring this late and great Zimbabwe man, missing him but his spirit lives on. Love from Texas
Indeed. He was a legend
This song was truly a Pan-African hit. Still loving it in Lagos, Nigeria. RIP Mr Mtukudzi…
It's was African national Anthem
I'm Ethiopian Kenyan, I remember going to school listening to this on classic 105 🙏❤
As i go throught the comments i love to read and feel different people's stories, and just feel the mystery of life while listening to the song... your was even more beautiful coz it pulled me back to thinking of the love story of ur parents, like how did they come to meet about, to now that you are here... and it can go further deeper thinking of their parents and their parents and so on, and you just realise life is a one beautiful mystery of which we are beyond blessed to be part of it, live it, and experience it, with all it's ups and downs
@@Skyper_G truly breathtaking ❤️
Quite nostalgic. The song used to play every morning at Radio Citizen as I prepared myself to go to school. Lot of love from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪. It brings up the memories of two decades ago.
POV .Every kenyan going to school every morning: a chance to listen to gooood african tunes
very true zile za waweru mburu
Kabisaa umegonga ndipo
Wacha tu memories
As a Kenyan I want to give thanks to my fellow Kenyans supporting the talent from other neighboring countries ❤️💯🙏💪
This song came out during the Era when having HiV was like a death penalty. He is basically saying that what shall we do to get the cure for this pandemic. If there is anyone who can have the ideas on the solution to this crisis, please come forward. He goes on to say: it is so painful to be raped by your married partner, knowing that you have HiV. Above all, there is no solution after death, we want the solution now.
Thanx its now clear
Thank you
thank you..i understand now..be blessed
Many thanks for the clarification!
Thanks for helping us understand.
Love from Kenya
Eish South Africa here this
Song raised me up now I'm 23 but ❤️😭
I am Cuban and I LOVE Tuku's timeless music. RIP African giant!
Mtukudzi is a great musician he is actually singing three languages in one song.
This song never gets old
2022 , the song is still fire 🔥
🔥🔥
RIP tuku a great son of Africa
🇿🇼🇿🇼 from Zambia 🇿🇲❤
We are one country
Lesotho, Kenya , Namibia etc really appreciate this song even now in 2022 nearly 2023 in 3 days time ... Africa is full of one love , God bless Africa.
being Zambian is funny i grew knowing this man was Zambian his songs would play rather still playing to date on Zambian radio stations and i used to think he is from eastern Zambia infact the way us Zambians sing his songs it will forever be difficult to convince me he is Zimbabwean "washa widu"
I thought I was the only one who has refused to accept he is from Zimbabwe 😂😂😂😂
@@taizierchisha6847 hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I thought he was Mozambican 🤣
@@zeinabomomade8817 hahaha wish he was still alive
Guys he is Malawian mweeh... Stop confusing us oooh
We cannot forget you Sir Over...listening from Nairobi Kenya +254...Kenya.
Dancan Ndegwa still here with you
still hitting
Aaah
If you are born in Kenya in 90s you must be familiar with this song. Used to play in KBC radio every morning when we used to go to school. I miss old life
True
Sheikh Kelvin same in South Africa every morning before we leave home for school thobela FM 🤣🤣🤣🤣
radio jambo is that old?
Radio Jambo?? Really?
It was played in KBC not radio Jambo or citizen they're of recent.
How I wish Zimbabweans knew how much this is loved in my country Kenya,, we have you in our 💙💙
im so sad after hearing the sad news😰😰...MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE
Tuku still lives in our hearts. Legends never die. They rest in paradise and peace! #Legacy
Reading comments here, damn, i feel blessed to be a Zimbabwean and to have lived in the era of Tuku and Thomas Mapfumo. thank you all for the heart warming comments😍
Take your time n translate this song for us,kindly
Grew up listening to this song, i still listen to it, i love it I'm enjoying it...You're a legend Tuku. The angels must be very happy have to have you among them.May your soul rest in peace.. Love from Kenya 🇰🇪 💞
Me too I grew up listening to it ...Very true.....may His soul rest in eternal peace.
His Music lives on
My Primary school TBT song.
Nice song, sad news u left us Oliver.
Rest in peace The Legend.
a legend in Kenya... May he rest in peace
I’m from Mozambique and me and my family we used to listen Oliver Mtukhudzi all family’s parties ❤️Rest in peace Oliver,some love from Mozzzzz🇲🇿🇲🇿❤️
Essa música é muito boa
Feeling nostalgic how I miss my childhood memories. This used to be my waking up song. I remember vividly how my late papa could prepare us ' ugali' with fried liver and mama doing the packing of milk and rice as that is what we could have In school. Maaan so much beautiful memories over there. Late 1990s it was.
You are so hot.
very true..it brings back so many good memories of the 90's.. and sorry for the lost of ya dad.
Sorry 4 de lose of a daddy
We love Africa ,we love African music , love from Tanzania
Love sisonke.........
R.I.P legend.. Namibia loves you. I'm 24 years old and this used to be my favorite song, although I had no idea what he was saying.. Go well big man..
Marvin Carter OLIVER MTUKUDZI
TODII WHAT SHALL WE DO
Chorus:
Hooo todini senzeni what shall we do
What shall we do , tingadii
Senzenjani, what shall we do what shall we do
Zvinorwadza sei kurera rufu mumaoko how painful it is to look after someone u know is gonna die
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Zvinorwadza sei kuchengeta rufu mumaoko this person has gotten something that will lead to their death
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Bva zvamabata pamuviri pasina raramo death has been made manifest
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Bva zvapatumbuka pamuviri pasina raramo this is a condition that will not spare them
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
(Chorus)
Senzeni what shall we do
Tingadii what shall we do
What shall we do
(chorus)
Zvinorwadza sei kubhinywa ewaugere naye, how painful it is for the person you live with to murder you
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Zvinorwadza sei kubhinywa neakabvisa pfuma how painful for the one who paid your bride price to kill you
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Achiziva unahwo hutachiwana when they know they are infected
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Ende uchiziva Unahwo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
(chorus)
Seri kweguva hakuna munamato varume tapererwa (utachiwana) there is no repentence or turning back afetr death
Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas
Kana uinawo utachiwana
Seri kweguva hakuna munamato varume tapererwa (utachiwana) there is no repentence or turning back afetr death
Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Seri kweguva hakuna muteuro mambo tapererwa (utachiwana)
Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Seri kweguva hakuna muteuro mambo tapererwa (utachiwana) there is no repentence or turning back afetr death
Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Seri kweguva hakuna munamato varume tapererwa (utachiwana) there is no repentence or turning back afetr death
Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
Seri kweguva hakuna muteuro mambo tapererwa (utachiwana) there is no repentence or turning back afetr death
Dondipaiwo mazano we have run out of ideas
Kana uinawo utachiwana when they have AIDS
(chorus)
Yeshua Yeshua thank you very much, I really appreciate it. God bless your country
same here
zambian
Growing up listening to the song,rest in peace Tate Oliver Namibiyeah will miss you more
And corona virus is now a history to tell, if you survived this corona virus drama...drop a like.... 2020 is moving slowly and steady💖
Fauci created aids and Gates is making 10 times his investments on cov1d vaccines now
No day would pass without my dad listening to this song...made my childhood great...may your soul continue resting in peace...much love from kenya
These songs hit different now😭
AF
I thought I was the only one with that mentality.
YOU LOOK SO BEAUTIFUL BTW😻
You are beautiful though, can we?
Brrrooooo and I was here feeling like I'm getting old hahahaha
We will miss you Oliver here in Uganda. May your Soul rest in peace.
Paul u mean u loved him too
This particular song was always capital fm Uganda airwaves
Dear missed😪
Had a neighbour in soweto who used to play his songs and as kids we would sing not knowing the lyrics. Til I would visit my fam in Venda 🇿🇦 and almost every house played his music❤🤗 I think mostly coz we next to Zimbabwe than any province in south Africa
I literally cry to this song
Where in Venda?
@@khakhathimaphiri98 western.
Think all over South Africa this song is known. We also sang it and knew it in EC
@@andisiwejukuda6887 wouldn't know, but that's great🙂
This song reminds me of the mornings i would wake up wuth my mum in 1999 and listen to KBC before we went to school. Over 20 years later, I still get goosebumps listening to it. From Kenya, I love him
Much love from Namibia! I was very young (6 years) when HIV hit the continent, Southern Africa in particular. It was scary 😟. I say, may their souls rest in peace. We truly lost loved once. What was more painful was seeing them die without being able to do anything about their excruciating deaths.
Who is here august 2019, much love from uganda🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬
🤚🤚🤚
Ohh YES - September from TExas.
Who here believes that Jesus died for them to go to Heaven when they die and whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life 🙏😔
Am from KENYA my big bro loves this song very much
who is here in July 2019, I'm here. Always in our memories RIP The Great Tuku
We watched it on the same day, just an hour apart ❤😊
Esethu Abrahams all for the love of Tuku
His music doesn't get old
here
I have to have me some Tuku now and then. I regret not seeing him when he came to Atlanta, GA several years ago.
Rest in peace a great legend
Love from Kenya
Your music shall live on
RIP Champion!!!
Rest in peace brother,we will miss you
Imagine being obsessed with a song to this end even without knowing the true meaning of it's lyrics!!!! Love from 🇺🇬 2021
Todii? Means what shall we do
Heee senzeni? Means what shall we do
It’s painful to keep death in your hands
Chorus, what can you do when you have the virus
It’s painful to be raped by the one you love
Chorus …What can you do when you have the virus.
You bud a pregnancy without hope of term
What can you do when you have the virus
They know they gave you the virus
Chorus, what can you do when you have the virus
Even you know you have the virus
Chorus, what can you do when you have the virus
This was the time when HIV had no cure. Situation was hopeless
@@margaretmtandwa5860 please full lyrics lol
Was at work and this came up as a worm in my head.
Just started singing it
@@margaretmtandwa5860 wow we say good old days and like to forget that times were hard back then too.
@ronkimalyo3838 Also here from Uganda 🇺🇬 I love the song so much 💕
Ugandan here possessed with this song over years. But I now want to know the meaning. Someone from Zimbabwe please. I Know I will love the message too
I just get "what shall we do", the rest I get no word, but even so, I'm enjoying this timeless masterpiece. Straight outta Mozambique 🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿
The Song has got english transilation
Man I didn’t realize that it was “What Shall we do” 😹 I listen to this song since I was I little child and never know it
@@andonisandrea8354 where please
As a young South African I think deeply about the question raised in this song... Pertaining to our destinies as African youth.
I grew up singing "Wacha wivu" instead of "what shall we do." This song reminds me of my childhood. Much love from Kenya. RIP Legend
Fantastic song ...love from 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
Swahili nations
🇰🇪🇧🇮🇷🇼🇸🇸🇹🇿🇺🇬we all grew up singing along this song and we never cared what we were saying
This song hit differently ❤️❤️❤️
The guitar ❤️❤️❤️
🇰🇪🇰🇪for me was like wacha wiru🤦♀️🤣🤣
Zambia 🇿🇲 too
For me it was washawesha😂 from 🇹🇿
Todi wachiiiiwiii duuh!🤣🤣🤣 Tanzania 🇹🇿
The only song played all over Africa, it united Africans, RIP legend, love from Uganda 🇺🇬
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Forever a Zimbabwean and world icon even in death you shall forever be with us R.I.P tuku
my dad loved Oliver so much, everytime i listen to his music i miss him. RIP daddy
My Daddy too loved Oliver Mtukudzi and I also remember him when I listen to this song especially... May our Daddies rest in perfect peace...
Veronica Diome me too. RIP to my dad too
Veronica Diome 🙏🙏🙏
Aybo he is alive and strong.
Now Oliver has joined them. May their souls RIP
Im a kenyan n i have been listening to this song since i was small,now playing it on my guitar
I never knew the legend's song was about AIDS .It was only after his death that uncle fred enlightened me about the song,,,,,R.I.P my legend,am still mourning from kenya ,,,,,,,,,safiri salama tutaonana badae
Uncle Fred loves him sana
All the way from Nigeria, My deepest and most heartfelt sympathies for this tragic loss. Last year we lost Hugh Masekela, and now another legend is gone.
thebeatnumber
Ooooooooooh
so sad ma bru
This song is really heart touching November 2021 and am still repeating the same song 🎼🎸🎷🎤🎹 all the way from Tanzania 🇹🇿🇹🇿
😭😭😭😭from Zambia here we are 2024 ,your songs are a blessing continue resting in peace
I hope Zimbabwe have a holiday in honour of this man,pure Goat!!with love from Zambia
As a young girl I thought this song was Kenyan co it was sung on all radio stations especially in the mornings! Wakenya mpo?
Radio citizen mostly
I USED TO THINK HE IS SAYING SWAHIL I WACHA WIVU
True
Kwanza Maina kageni lazima angecheza
Especially classic 105
Still here in 2024 all the way from chirldhood much love from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪
am from tanzania 🇹🇿 but am still listening this song zamami nilikuwa najua😂wanasema wacha wivu kumbe ni wachawidu 😅
😭😭😭😭 your songs gave me hope when I was a little girl! Legends never die. Much love from Zambia 🇿🇲
rip
Lesotho 🇱🇸 think of you every moment
True