Singer Akon’s plans to build a futuristic city in his family’s home country, Senegal, have fallen through. The project, which failed to make much visible progress despite the singer’s plans to raise ...

Akon’s $6 billion plan for a real-life Wakanda on Senegal’s Atlantic Coast “no longer exists,” said Serigne Mamadou Mboup, head of Sapco-Senegal, the state agency overseeing coastal and tourism ...

Four years after announcing his plans for a Wakanda-inspired city, the “Locked Up” singer is being told to get to work or risk losing the land In 2020, the “Locked Up” artist announced his plans for ...

Plans for a futuristic city in Senegal dreamt up by the singer Akon have been scrapped and instead he will work on something more realistic, officials say. "The Akon City project no longer exists," ...

Senegal’s government has officially pulled the plug on R&B star Akon’s ambitious $6 billion plan to build a futuristic city inspired by Marvel's Wakanda-style set up in the film Black Panther. The ...

In 2018, Akon announced a cryptocurrency called Akoin and plans for a $6 billion Wakanda-style metropolis in his native country Senegal. Now, seven years later, Senegal has confirmed that the city ...

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 ...