In 2018, Akon shared his plans of building a futuristic pan-African city in his home country of Senegal, describing it as the as a “a real-life Wakanda” in reference to the Afro-futuristic ...

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Senegal is already a "pilgrimage destination ... this to give them the motivation to know that there is a home back home," Akon said at a 2020 press conference. But the global star, who has ...

Is Senegal’s Akon City an impossible dream? A futuristic city with atypical architecture, immersed in high-tech and propelled by solar energy and the crypto-currency launched by musician Akon, Akon ...

Akon has announced plans to build a "real-life Wakanda" in Senegal, built on the back of his almost-eponymous cryptocurrency, Akoin. Which - as anyone who has watched Black Panther, and seen ...

Speaking to Metro about his new song, aptly titled Akon’s Beautiful Day, the music icon revealed that he noticed that the ...

Widely known for his string of noughties chart hits Akon, who was born in the United States but partly raised in Senegal, announced two ambitious projects in 2018 that were supposed to represent ...

Acclaimed singer Akon has set the ball rolling on a futuristic city in Senegal. Hi-tech 'Akon City' will use cryptocurrency and be a place without borders, he said in Abu Dhabi. Senegal ...

The other project is a reported $6billion futuristically designed metropolis on the coast of Senegal called Akon City. Together Akoin and Akon City are supposed to represent the future of African ...