EndingHunger team recently received a powerful music video from a team of Cameroonian musicians. The video starts with a couple’s quarrel about rising food prices. “How can I live on so little money?” the wife nags and her husband gets angry.

“La vie est chère et les temps sont dure.” Life is expensive and the times are hard, sings the rapper. The two characters and the rapper keep on showing the grave effect rising food prices and the cost of living are having on the lives of people in Africa. The producer and the cast of this video clip are all from Cameroon where political unrest spilled over into protests over food and fuel prices.

A local musician Eric Kamga [FR], who produced the video clip says that he could no longer tolerate the social implications of rising food prices for the urban poor. Listen to the cry of the urban poor in Africa. Find out why food prices are soaring again and what we can do to deal with this situation.