Obama is the message

"For the first time since a white person set foot on this continent, the person himself is the message", writes the left-liberal daily La Repubblica on US President Barack Obama's visit to Ghana. "This message has a real face, which can ... overcome the Africans' understandable scepticism. ... Obama himself is a 'little Africa', a man born in the least opportune conditions North America has to offer, trapped in the ghetto of his skin colour. ... Continually exposed to the temptations of the street and the admonitions of a black society that still frowned upon a black man who 'wanted to behave like a white'. In the end the warrior became king, president of the most powerful country in the world. He can say to anyone, regardless of whether it's an inhabitant of Ghana or an orphan from the south side of Chicago: 'yes you can'. If I can do it, so can you."

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