Food crisis prompts South Sudan reggae band to sing songs of farming

What is the benefit when children are crying and people are dying due to hunger? There is no need to cry when you have the potential to dig, sing the Juba-based dance hall reggae group, the Jay Family, on their latest single Stakal Shedit, which means work hard in Arabic.

In the Stakal Shedit video, the three members, Jay Boi, Jonio Jay and Yuppie Jay, wear denim overalls and rubber boots with garden hoes slung over their shoulders. The objective is to motivate youth to engage in agriculture as a means of fighting food insecurity in South Sudan against a background of civil war.