Akon’s ambitious $6 billion plan to build a Wakanda-inspired smart city in Senegal has been officially abandoned.

Plans for a futuristic city in Senegal dreamt up by the singer Akon have been scrapped and instead he will work on something ...

Plans for a futuristic city in Senegal dreamt up by the singer Akon have been scrapped and instead he will work on something ...

Celebrity singer-songerwriter Akon has been left red-faced after his ambitious plans to build a futuristic seaside city to the tune of £4.4bn has descended into chaos ...

Designed with curvy skyscrapers and sleek infrastructure, early renderings of Akon City drew comparisons to Marvel's ...

Plans for a $6 billion futuristic city in Senegal, envisioned by U.S.-born singer Akon and inspired by the fictional Wakanda ...

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 will not be ...

Akon's grand plans to build a £4.3 billion futuristic city in Senegal have officially been scrapped five years after the singer promised to turn a remote stretch of West African coastline into a ...

Akon City, which was authorized by Senegal’s state-owned SAPCO tourism company, will be a “crypto-city” built on 2,000 acres of land. For money, residents will use a cryptocurrency known as ...

Akon City, which the singer has previously called a “real-life Wakanda,” will include every aspect of a regular city, from luxury condos to a university to a hospital and even a beachfront resort.

Rapper and entrepreneur Akon has finalized the plans for his futuristic “Crypto city” on a 2,000-acre site near Senegal’s biggest airport.

Akon, born Aliaume Akon Thiam, moved to Union City from Senegal when he was 7 years old and attended high school in Jersey City. The Grammy-nominated singer achieved major success in the early ...