Nairobi/Accra, July 12, SPA -- US President Barack Obama in Ghana Saturday toured a major port in the great slave trade, calling it "a moving experience," on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office. His trip to the fort came as part of a visit to Ghana and aftertalks with President John Atta Mills and an address to lawmakers inAccra. Later at a departure ceremony before leaving the country, Obama said: "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. It was a remarkable reminder that, while the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress." Thousands of people gathered on the tarmac to see off the firstAfrican American president who had declared in a speech to Parliament that "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." In his speech in Parliament, Obama said the simple truth of thetime was that "the 21st century will be shaped by what happens notjust in Rome or Moscow or Washington, but by what happens in Accra as well." "Your prosperity can expand America's. Your health and securitycan contribute to the world's." "So I do not see the countries and peoples of Africa as a worldapart; I see Africa as a fundamental part of our inter-connectedworld - as partners with America on behalf of the future we want forall our children," he was quoted as saying by the German News Agency "DPA".--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/683618