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U.S. President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their children Malia and Sasha arrive in Accra, Ghana July 10, 2009.
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US President Barack Obama holds a child as he tours with US First Lady Michelle Obama the La General Hospital in Accra on July 11, 2009.
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US President Barack Obama chats with his Ghanean counterpart John Atta-Mills on July 11, 2009 during breakfast with with First Lady Michelle Obama at Osu Castle, the government headquarters and a former slave trading fort, in Accra.
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US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama talk with pregnant women during a tour of the La General Hospital in Accra on July 11, 2009.
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President Barack Obama is accompanied by Speaker of Parliament Joyce Bamford-Addo, left, as during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner following his address to the Ghanaian Parliament in Accra, Ghana, Saturday, July 11, 2009.
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U.S. President Barack Obama’s convoy leaves the presidential castle in Accra July 11, 2009.
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US President Barack Obama tours the La General Hospital in Accra on July 11, 2009. The visit marks Obama’s first to subsaharan African as President. Huge crowds lined the streets of Accra hoping to catch a glimpse of the first Black US President, the son of an African immigrant, after he arrived from the Group of Eight summit in Italy.
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John Atta Mills, the president of Ghana, walks alongside US President Barack Obama (C) upon arrival at the Presidential Castle in Accra, Ghana, on July 11, 2009. The visit marks Obama’s first to subsaharan Africa as President. Obama, who will address parliament Saturday, said before the trip that he had chosen Ghana as his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa because it was an example of a “functioning democracy” in the conflict-scarred continent.
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President Barack Obama walks with Ghana President John Atta Mills, right, at the Presidential Palace in Accra, Ghana, Saturday, July 11, 2009.
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US President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, their daughters Sasha and Malia stand at the entrance of the ‘Door of No Return’ during a guided tour in Cape Coast Castle, a former slavery outpost, in Cape Coast, Ghana, on July 11, 2009.
The visit marks Obama’s first to subsaharan Africa as President.
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A view of a slave fortress in Cape Coast, Ghana in 1996. Hundreds of thousands of Africans were forced through its dungeons and loaded onto slave ships anchored along the Atlantic coastline.

US President Barack Obama speaks after touring Cape Coast Castle, in Cape Coast, Ghana, on July 11, 2009. Obama and his family made a “moving” visit to a former slave trading fort in Ghana during a landmark visit to the west African country. The Obamas went on a guided tour of Cape Coast Castle, formerly one of the continent’s main outposts from where countless slaves were shipped trans-Atlantic to the Americas. Obama, the son of an African immigrant, and his wife Michelle, a descendant of African slaves, were accompanied on the tour by their daughters Malia and Sasha.
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U.S. President Barack Obama leads his family from the slave holding cells inside Cape Coast Castle, a former slave holding facility, in the Ghanaian town of Cape Coast, July 11, 2009.
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