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Africans eye a pope from among their own

Guinean cardinal Robert Sarah (C) attends a prayer at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Victories in Dakar on December 4, 2023.[AFP]

In 2010, Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson said he was not ready to become pope -- and that the Catholic Church might not be either.

"I wouldn't want to be that first black pope. I think he'll have a rough time," he said.

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