What does the architectural style of this mosque in West Africa demonstrate about the transmission of culture from one group to another?

The Islamic traditions of Arabia were incorporated into already existing ideas about art and culture. The cultural transmission of ideas is contingent upon the reception of those ideas in whole. The transmission of cultural ideas always includes resistance and conflict with the mother culture. The host culture must abandon previous ideas about art and culture in order to accept the new

Islamic beliefs were incorporated into already existing ideas of art and culture