Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Akon’s Plans For A ‘Wakanda’-Style ‘Akon City’ In Senegal Dropped Singer Akon's plans to build a futuristic city in his family's ...

Akon is many things. He's a 5x-Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and producer. He discovered and signed Lady Gaga when she was a freelance studio backup singer. When ringtones were a thing back in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Akon's $6 billion plan for a real-life Wakanda on Senegal's Atlantic Coast "no longer exists," said Serigne Mamadou Mboup, head of ...

Five years after Grammy-nominated artist Akon announced his ambitious plans to construct a futuristic, cryptocurrency-powered city in Senegal, the project has officially been scrapped. What was once ...

The spectacular $6 billion (£4.47 billion) 'Wakanda' vision was meant to transform Akon City into a futuristic hub, yet it seems this ambitious dream has stalled. Now, as details emerge of Akon's ...

For the unversed, the Senegalese American R&B star got the ball rolling on his eponymous city, estimated to cost $6 billion, back in 2020, when Senegal permitted Akon to build near a farming village ...

During a candid interview with AllHipHop‘s Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur, he said the city is on the way. Announced with great fanfare in 2018, Akon City was billed as a futuristic, eco-friendly city in ...

Akon is shutting down rumors that his dream project, “Akon City,” has been scrapped. The ambitious city, first unveiled in 2018, was pitched as a cutting-edge, crypto-powered hub designed to transform ...

Taken to task in November 2022, Akon was forced to relaunch his futuristic city project. He brought a new partner on board, Frenchman Dominique Delport, formerly of Havas and then Vivendi (Bolloré ...

Last August, we told you about Akon’s plans to build “Akon City,” a $6 billion Wakanda-inspired city of tomorrow. With 136 acres of land granted by the Senegalese government, his futuristic metropolis ...