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Crowd gathered in the street 2. Motorcade with US president Barack Obama arriving at State house escorted by police, people cheering3. Police maintaining orderAP Television4. Wide shot of street5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003e1. Crowd gathered in the street \u003cbr/\u003e2. Motorcade with US president Barack Obama arriving at State house escorted by police, people cheering\u003cbr/\u003e3. Police maintaining order\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide shot of street\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, name not known, Accra resident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I am very very pleased about Obama. Obama is coming to Ghana and this is sending a very good clue to the African continent out there that Ghana is really practicing a very good democracy.\" \u003cbr/\u003e6. Cutaway of people in the street \u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, name not known, Accra resident:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think he will be encouraging them to keep it up - the democratic good, they should keep it up, and look forward to improve on their economy by helping them improve on their economy so that we can fight against the things that bring poverty to the African countries.\"  \u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide of street \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of Obama greeting officials\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up of Obama\u003cbr/\u003e11. Obama sitting down for breakfast\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of the Obama family and Ghanaian President John Atta Mills at breakfast\u003cbr/\u003ePOOL - No Access North America/Internet\u003cbr/\u003e13. Bilateral meeting between Obama and Mills, UPSOUND (English) Ghanaian President John Atta Mills: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Once again, welcome to your own home and we hope that this relationship is going to grow from strength to strength.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Obama speaking during bilateral meeting, UPSOUND (English) US President Barack Obama: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We wanted to make sure to come to an African country after the G8 and after my visit in Moscow to emphasise that Africa is not separate from world affairs.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of Obama speaking, UPSOUND (English) US President Barack Obama: \u003cbr/\u003e\"What happens here has an impact everywhere, and coming to Ghana specifically partly was prompted by the fact that I am very familiar with East Africa, I've been to South Africa, but I've never been to West Africa, and partly it was to recognise the extraordinary progress that has been made in Ghana around democratic issues.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003e16. Honour guard marching, playing\u003cbr/\u003e17. Close up honour guard\u003cbr/\u003e18. Pull out from helicopter flying overhead to gate\u003cbr/\u003e19. Motorcade with Obama leaving \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003e20. Obama arriving at Ghanaian parliament, audience cheering\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide of stage\u003cbr/\u003e22. Obama listening to US national anthem\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I've come here to Ghana for a simple reason. The 21st century will be shaped by what happens not just in Rome, or Moscow, or Washington, but by what happens in Accra as well.\" \u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide of audience listening\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e25. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I say this knowing full well the tragic past that has sometimes haunted this part of the world. After all, I have the blood of Africa within me and my family's own story encompasses both the tragedies and triumphs of the larger African story.\"\u003cbr/\u003e26. Mid of audience\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"But to realise that promise, we must first recognise a fundamental truth that you have given life to in Ghana: development depends upon good governance. That is the ingredient which has been missing in far too many places, for far too long. That is the change that can unlock Africa's potential. And that is a responsibility that can only be met by Africans.\"\u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid of lawmakers\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves, or if police can be bought off by drug traffickers. No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top, or the head of the Port Authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. That is not democracy, that is tyranny, even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there. And now is the time for that style of governance to end.\"\u003cbr/\u003e30. Obama shaking hands with people\u003cbr/\u003ePOOL - No Access North America/Internet\u003cbr/\u003e31. Men playing drums at airport\u003cbr/\u003e32. People waiting for Obama to arrive\u003cbr/\u003e33. Wide of airport, honour guard standing\u003cbr/\u003e34. Dancers, and drummers performing\u003cbr/\u003e35. Obama's car approaching Air Force One on tarmac\u003cbr/\u003e36. Mills and his wife walking down red carpet\u003cbr/\u003e37. Obama and family walking on tarmac, waving\u003cbr/\u003e38. Obama and Mills walking up to podium for speech\u003cbr/\u003e39. Pull out of crowd cheering \u003cbr/\u003e40. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President (++part overlaid by mid of Mills listening++):\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'll never forget the image of my two young daughters, the descendants of Africans and African Americans, walking through those 'doors of no return' but then walking back those doors of return. It was a remarkable reminder that while the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.\"\u003cbr/\u003e41. Wide of crowd at airport\u003cbr/\u003e42. Obama and wife Michelle walking up plane stairs and waving goodbye\u003cbr/\u003e43. Mid of plane on tarmac before departure\u003cbr/\u003eAmerica's president and Africa's son, Barack Obama dashed with pride onto the continent of his ancestors Saturday, challenging its people to shed corruption and conflict in favoUr of peace. \u003cbr/\u003eCampaigning to all of Africa, he said \"Yes you can.\"\u003cbr/\u003e\"I say this knowing full well the tragic past that has sometimes haunted this part of the world,\" Obama told a riveted Parliament.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I have the blood of Africa within me,\" Obama said.\u003cbr/\u003eIn the faces of those who lined the streets and in many of Obama's own words, this trip was personal. \u003cbr/\u003eBeyond his message, the story was his presence - the first black US president coming to poor, proud, predominantly black sub-Sahara Africa for his first time in office.\u003cbr/\u003eThe emotional touchstone of his visit: a tour of Cape Coast Castle, the cannon-lined fortress where slaves were kept in squalid dungeons, then shipped in chains to America through a \"Door of No Return\" that opens to the sea.\u003cbr/\u003eObama absorbed the experience with his wife, Michelle, and their girls, Sasha and Malia.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'll never forget the image of my two young daughters, the descendants of Africans and African-Americans, walking through those doors of no return but then walking back (through) those doors,\" he said later at a grand departure ceremony. \u003cbr/\u003e\"It was a remarkable reminder that, while the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.\" \u003cbr/\u003eGhanaians lined up on the tarmac lingered for a time even after Air Force One disappeared into the night time sky.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the heart of Obama's message here: African nations crippled by coups and chaos, like Ghana has been in the past, can reshape themselves into lawful democracies. \u003cbr/\u003eHe said it takes good governance, sustained development, improved health care.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd that the moment is now.\u003cbr/\u003eThe son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, Obama bluntly told Africa to take more responsibility for itself.\u003cbr/\u003eSub-Saharan Africa is one of the poorest places in the world.\u003cbr/\u003eIn essence, Obama's history with Africa seemed to give him freer license to speak about the continent, as if he were being honest with a friend. \u003cbr/\u003eHe gave an unsentimental account of squandered opportunities, brutality and bribery in post-colonial Africa.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout every time Obama cited his basic argument - that democracy is about more than holding elections, that Africa resist the drug trade and enforce a rule of law - members of Parliament raucously cheered him on. \u003cbr/\u003eThen again, this audience was friendly. When Obama left, a choir sang a song to his campaign theme of \"Yes we can,\" a line he used himself.\u003cbr/\u003eAll together, Obama was spending less than 24 hours in Ghana. \u003cbr/\u003eBut they packed in personal moments, in contrast to his summit-heavy travels across Russia and Italy over the last week.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a maternal health clinic in Accra, he turned into a sentimental dad when he met a group of mothers holding newborns.\u003cbr/\u003eBy afternoon, he was contemplating the human capacity for evil at the castle, which served as a headquarters for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. \u003cbr/\u003eObama will be back to Africa. 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