Embrace: Obama hugs his daughter Sasha while
listening to the tour guide inside Nelson Mandela's former prison cell
on Robben Island
Poignant moment: Barack Obama writes in a guest
book as he tours Robben Island with first lady Michelle Obama. Under
apartheid, Nelson Mandela spent several decades as a political prisoner
there
It is the final day of the President's visit to
South Africa. He met with relatives of Mandela, who remains in serious
condition in hospital
Message: A hand-written note by U.S. President
Barack Obama is pictured in a guest book as he tours Robben Island with
First lady Michelle Obama near Cape Town
Poignant moments: U.S. President Barack Obama is
pictured with his family, as he visits the rock quarry labor camp where
Nelson Mandela was forced to work
Obama peers out from Section B, prison cell No.
5, on Robben Island, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela spent 18-years
of his 27-year prison term on the island locked up by the former
apartheid government
In thought: US President Barack Obama looks out
the window from the cell where Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid
activist, was once jailed
Former prisoner: The Obama's listen to Robben
Island prison guide Ahmed Kathrada, left, who was an inmate with Nelson
Mandela, at the prison near Capetown
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