this italian (venetian) reggae band has been predicting it since 97, this song regains minor popularity in italy every time there is a new pope election
I see a lot of people in my news circle hoping for Robert Sarah, who seems to be exactly that.
There is almost no hope of an African pope being chosen. They are all too conservative. You can read that conspiritorially or take it as the recognized imprudence of fomenting European schism.