Akon failed to deliver on his dream of a real-life Wakanda in the debt-stricken country. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Akon’s ‘wakanda’ dream meets harsh realities Spanning 800 hectares along Senegal’s Atlantic coast, Akon City was pitched as a high-tech hub filled with hospitals, schools, shopping centers ...

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 ...

Akon's plan to build a $6 billion dollar Akon City in Senegal, supported by his Akoin cryptocurrency, is not working out.

Plans for "Akon City," a futuristic metropolis modeled to be a "real-life Wakanda," made waves when the public first learned of the initiative in 2018.

Senegal has officially axed plans for Akon City, the wildly ambitious $6 billion crypto-metropolis dreamed up by singer-turned-visionary Akon.

Akon City is promising a bit of everything: a seaside resort, a tech hub, recording studios and even a zone dubbed "Senewood'' that developers hope will help develop Senegal's film industry.

Senegal's leaders had hoped that the project would help transform the country where Akon, born Alioune Badara Thiam, spent a part of his childhood.

Sitting on Senegal’s Atlantic Coast, Akon’s high-tech, eco-friendly city was supposed to run entirely on renewable energy. But despite Akon’s insistence in a 2022 BBC interview that the project was ...

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