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Ndiyo Bwana

By Bony Mwaitege

3,775 views Sep 11, 2026 updated Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Bony Mwaitege's "Ndiyo Bwana" is built as a call-and-response act of returning credit to God for specific answered prayers. The Swahili refrain — "Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana, tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba," yes, yes, yes Lord, we return Your glory to You, Father — repeats as a chorus while the bracketed lines underneath it name the actual testimonies: a woman who prayed for a husband and was heard, a couple who asked for a child and received Samweli, a student who prayed to pass exams and did, someone promoted at work as prayed. The song refuses to let the singer claim any of it. Every parenthetical answered prayer gets folded straight back into "hatugusi utukufu ni wako" — we don't touch the glory, it's Yours. Titles like Jehovah Rapha, the Lord who heals, appear alongside references to Joshua's sun standing still, the sea that hasn't closed since it parted, and walking on water — stacking present-day answered prayer next to Old Testament miracle as the same kind of God acting the same way. It functions less as a song about one event and more as a running ledger of a community's specific answered prayers, sung back to God rather than kept as personal credit.
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Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Heshima na mamlaka ni vyako) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 


Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Wastahili utukufu Jehovah Rapha 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Unatenda maajabu Jehovah)

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Sisi tumemuombea uliyemponya niwewe,

Hatugusi utukufu ni wako) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Unastahili Bwana milele) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Aliomba apate mume, Mungu umemsikia 

Wa kupewea utukufu ni wewe) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Unastahili wewe duniani kote) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 


(Aliomba apate mke, Mungu umemsikia 

Wa kupewea heshima ni wewe Bwana) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Unayejibu maombi yetu)

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Aliomba apate mtoto, Samweli amepatikana

Wastahili heshima Bwana) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Hatugusi utukufu ni wako) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Sisi tumehubiri, unayeokoa ni wewe 

Unastahili heshima Bwana) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(utukufu wako tunauogopa sana) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Hata kama tunaimba, watu wanabarikiwa

Hatugusi utukufu ni wako) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Haleluya Hossana milele) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 


(Uko pekee yako wa kubeba utukufu) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Tuliomba afaulu masomo, kweli umemsaidia 

Masomo amefaulu usifiwe Baba )

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Hakuna mwingine duniani kote) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Tuliomba apandishwe cheo kweli amepandishwa

Heshima na utukufu ni vyako )

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Kwa kuimba na kucheza 

Tunakusifu Bwana) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Sisi hatuna ujanja wa kuponya kiwete 

Utukufu ni wako unayeponya) 

(Wewe ulisimamisha jua wakati wa Joshua) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Tangu ulipoigawa Bahari haijawanyika tena  

Hatuna ujanja zaidi yako Bwana) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

(Ulitembea juu ya maji 

Wewe wa ajabu Bwana) 

Ndiyo ndiyo ndiyo Bwana 

Tunakurudishia utukufu wako Baba 

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