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SV People performing Ghanaian dance "Kpalongo" to an audience of parents and children in Arts Centre in Accra (3 shots)
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SV Children and parents watching
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SV James town Middle School girls performing Birth of christ on stage showing Wise Men presenting gifts (3 shots)
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SV Children watching as girls sing carols (2 shots)
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CU Sign "Toy Fair" inside the Kingsway stores and children riding on toy train (3 shots)
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SV Father Christmas giving gifts to children (5 shots)
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Background: Father Christmas is visiting Accra, the Ghanaian capital. Children are enjoying various festivities and their parents are on a season's shopping spree.

SYNOPSIS: A special children's theatre programme has been arranged at the city's Arts Centre, and pupils of the Sempeh Six and Seven Middle Schools are performing a series of traditional Ghanaian dances. This dance is called Kpalongo.

Girls from the James Town Middle School have staged another performance: The Birth of Christ. Here the Wise Men just arrived to worship the child Jesus and present him with gifts....
Of course -- there is also a lot of carol singing.

In Accra's Liberty Avenue the Kingsway stores have organised a Christmas fair. While their parents are busy shopping, the young ones enjoy the ride.

Father Christmas gets very busy....