There are three senior cardinals from Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Guinea.
The College of Cardinals elects the next Pope guided by tradition and several other factors.
As the smoke of mourning continues to rise over the Vatican following Pope Francis’s death on Easter Monday, his passing has reignited a familiar yet critical question of whether the time is ripe for Africa to give the world its first Pope.
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