Odienné is a town in north western Côte dIvoire (often called Ivory Coast in English; see below about the name) is a country in West Africa. It borders Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana to the west, north, and east, and borders the Gulf of Guinea to its south. One of the most... Côte d'Ivoire, lying east of the Dinguélé Massif. It was founded by The Malinké are an African ethnic group. Approximately one million Malinkés are scattered throughout The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania and Sénégal. Traditionally they are subsistence farmers, growing small cash crops of peanuts and millet in the Sahel Africa region. They are... Malinké people under Vakaba Tourié (who is buried in the town). Later, Samory Touré founded a support base in the town. Features of Odienné include a large A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. Masjid ( Arabic: مسجد - pronounced: mŭsjĭd) is the Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Malay, Hindi, Gujarati, and Marathi term for a mosque. This term is used widely throughout the Islamic world, and... mosque and nearby Gold mining consists of the processes and techniques employed in the removal of gold from the ground. There are several techniques by which gold may be extracted from earth and rock: Gold panning Gold panning is comprised of a manual gravimetric technique of sorting by which wide, shallow pans are... gold mines.