The President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, is expected to pay a two-day state visit to Ghana in July.

A press statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration in Accra on 15th May, 2009 noted that Barack Obama would be in Ghana from Friday, 10th to Saturday, 11th July, 2009.

The president would be accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Michelle Obama and other government officials.

“During his visit, President Obama will hold bilateral talks with his Ghanaian counterpart, President John Evans Atta Mills, aimed at strengthening the fraternal relations existing between the two countries,” the statement said.

The US President and his delegation will also visit the Cape Coast Castle.

According to Dr Nii Alarbi, an international relation expert, the visit by Barack Obama indicates the maturity of Ghana’s democracy and warned against any politization.

He told Joy News the ‘good news’ should be seen as an opportunity for the country and the entire continent; and urged President Mills to make the best out of it.

The visit is widely seen as an endorsement by the US of Ghana as one of Africa's strongest democracies, having held widely acclaimed free and fair elections in Janaury that saw the transfer of power from the government to the opposition for the second time in Ghana's political history.