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 ...

The first was Akon City - reportedly costed at $6bn (£5bn). It was to run on the second initiative - a brand new cryptocurrency called Akoin.

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

Akons dream of building a futuristic $6 billion city in Senegal, modeled after Wakanda, has been reportedly shelved. The ...

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

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 even envisions the city having its own cryptocurrency already dubbed the “AKoin.” The almost surrealist, water-like designs of Akon City were inspired by the shapes of traditional ...

Akon's father was born in Senegal and Akon spent a lot of time there as a child. In 2020, the "Locked Up" singer announced plans to build Akon City, a high-tech, eco-friendly urban center inspired ...

In 2020, Senegalese-American singer Akon vowed to create "a real-life Wakanda" in Senegal. But four years on, his futuristic city remains little more than a pipe dream. The West African nation had ...