Ousmane Diakité, born on January 1, 1956, in Odienné, in the Kabadougou region located in the northwest of Côte d'Ivoire, is an Ivorian imam. He is the current president of the Higher Council of Imams, Mosques, and Islamic Affairs of Côte d'Ivoire (Cosim) since 2021. Ousmane Diakité was born on January 1, 1956, in Odienné in the northwest of Côte d'Ivoire. After completing his primary and secondary education at Dar-El Hadits School in Bouaké in the central part of the country, he pursued a French language course at the University of Humanities in Strasbourg, France, within the Department of Languages, between 1977 and 1979. Then, from 1979, he attended the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Public Law with an option in internal administration in 1983.

Upon his return to Côte d'Ivoire, Ousmane Diakité worked as a teacher of Arabic and French for 2 years from 1984 to 1986 at Mamadou Coulibaly Group School in Odienné in his hometown, before becoming a civil servant at the Ministry of the Interior as the General Secretary of the Municipality from 1986 to 2016. Since 2014, he has been a member of the central commission of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) of Côte d'Ivoire, representing the Muslim community