Emily George has a great post up at her blog asking what Obama will see on his upcoming trip to Ghana. She writes –

In just a few short days President Obama will be arriving in Ghana to mark his first presidential trip to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is widely known that Mr. Obama has insisted on visiting the slave castles that line the Cape Coast to witness remnants of the horrors from when thousands of African slaves were being sold to Europe and the Americas.
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My hope is that when Mr. Obama stares out over the castle walls to the Guinea Sea to reflect on how far humanity has come that he will remember that human slavery has not been completely abolished. My hope is that he will look at the empty dungeons that once held men and women in chains and see the 246 million children that are still enslaved today. Mr. Obama does not have to look but a few kilometers away to Lake Volta to witness this slavery first hand. The children working on this lake may not be wearing chains or kept in dungeons, but they may as well be. These children, some as young as 4 years old, wake at 3 a.m. to begin their day. They are fed only one meal and forced to work outside. None go to school.

The dungeons of St. George castle may be empty, but Lake Volta is still crawling with slaves today. Mr. Obama, do you see them?

Thank you Emily for asking the question and for raising awareness about the horrors these children face.