I sat and had coffee with Cardinal Arinze (and about 9 other fellow guests) at the Opus Dei center in Chicago. He talked about the progress the Church had made in Nigeria, particularly with respect to the growth of Islam. Fascinating man.
I met Arinze too, when he visited Notre Dame in November of 1999. I was really impressed with him and would love to see him as the next pope. The Church is dead in Europe, but it is growing in Africa and I think the papacy should reflect this.