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"This Pope has made a lot of efforts to make our faith inclusive... I remember him with joy," Ghanaian Catholic Aba Amissah Quainoo told the BBC in the capital, Accra.

She was set to depart Accra, the Ghanaian capital, in hours, just after the embassy cocktail party ended.

I first stayed with my Uncle Fiifi, a former UN environmentalist, in a town called Dansoman, near the capital, Accra.

Michael Adom was 17 when he arrived in Accra for school in the 1990s, describing his experience as "bittersweet".

Instead, I received private tuition at Accra Academy, a state secondary school that my late father had attended.