Friend of mine had an erasmus in Africa and he actually did say that religion helped keeping the black folks there in control, funny you say it here now as well haha
Those places look quite similar actually. I'm playing GTA again and did some Lamar online mission in Grove Street and the only similar thing is that it's a dead end...:(
There is something weird going on with the video overlay, I've to go fullscreen before I can forward click on the red timeline line thing http://imgur.com/DSDKgUj