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A stream of worshippers leaves a village mosque in northern Ghana after offering prayers. West Africa is known for its distinctive mosques, fairy tale-like edifices made of dried mud and ornamented with tapering minarets, cone-shaped pinnacles, and toron, projecting wooden stakes that act as scaffolding.
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