The land belonged to several hundred people who ... So far, the only tangible sign of construction of Akon City, aside from the Welcome Center, is a recently built youth center, the platform ...

Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic pan-African city, announcing Monday that construction will begin next year on the $6 billion project despite global tourism’s uncertain future.

Akon City was initially compared in the press with ... adding that he has a lease on the land for the next 50 years and that his project has "been co-signed by the current president".

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 ...

Which - as anyone who has watched Black Panther, and seen Marvel's imagined city ... 2,000 acres of land to start the project off. But as far as we know, neither Senegal nor Akon have their ...

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 ...

including a $6 billion futuristic city in Senegal and a cryptocurrency called Akoin. Akon’s foray into Congo’s mining sector comes through a U.S.- registered firm called White Waterfall LLC ...