This is most likely the Djingareyber Mosque, of Timbuktu, Mali. It is the most noteworthy Mosque within Timbuktu, and the facade is notable in the West African (Malinese), Islamic architecture.
[Mansa Musa] commissioned Abu-Ishaq Ibrahim-es-Saheli to construct his royal palace and a great mosque, the Djingareyber Mosque, at Timbuktu. Still standing today, the Djingareyber Mosque consists of nine rows of square pillars and provides prayer space for 2,000 people. Es-Saheli introduced the use of burnt brick and mud as a building material to this region. The Djingareyber's mud construction established a 660-year-old tradition that still persists: each year before the torrential rains fall in the summer, Timbuktu's residents replaster the mosque's high walls and flat roof with mud. The Djingareyber Mosque immediately became the central mosque of the city, and it dominates Timbuktu to this day.
It may also be Sankore University, which is similar in architectural design. Sankore hearkens to Timbuktu's role as a center of higher learning, and Muslim educational institutions. I wouldn't be surprised if the wonder was Sankore, either, though I find it odd to make a Sankore Uni. wonder when, say, Oxford University is just a national wonder.
Either way, this is definitely a Malinese world wonder.
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