[1][2][3][4][5] According to historians, it was built in the earliest 17th century, when the Mande warriors followed the old Songhai trade routes south into what is currently Ghana.

Islam took root as they settled around these north–south routes from Bobo-Diouslasso through Wa to Kumasi.

[1] It is made of timber-frame structures that support the flat roof which is of mud construction.

It also has a series irregularly shaped buttresses with pinnacles projecting which is above the parapet.

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