Accra

Mus and I were walking around in Accra (the capital of Ghana) the other day and there were probably 40 policemen standing in one city block. We couldn't figure out was going on (but I felt like it probably was not a good place to be...) Turns out like 15,000+ people were protesting this new law proposed in Parliament here. They alerted the police before the protest and told them where they planned to march, so the city had 1,500 cops lined up along the streets they planned to march down- the police were there to clear traffic and keep things from getting violent, especially should supporters of the bill want to to go out there and rough the protesters up. I thought that was crazy. It was a protest but also like a parade. I just can't imagine our police in the US clearing the streets for a protest...

By the way, Accra is a crazy city. The official number in terms of population is 5 million, but it's really much higher because alot of people who don't work in office type jobs don't get counted, and hundreds of people move into the city everyday. But seriously, you can drive in Accra for an hour and not even cover the radius of the city. And the population density is unbelievable. A large, expensive fancy pants house would sit on maybe half an acre of land. And most houses are side by side, San Francisco style.