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Singer Akon’s Multibillion-Dollar Futuristic City in Africa Gets Final Notice
- Senegal gives singer deadline to start building his Akon City
- Akon’s African metropolis plagued by controversies and delays
Source: Hussein Bakri/BAD Consultant/Semer Group
A single arched concrete block juts out of a field in Senegal where R&B singer Akon first laid the foundation stone for his $6 billion metropolis four years ago.
The West African nation granted the artist 136 acres of land on its Atlantic Coast in 2020 to build his Akon City — envisioned as a real-life Wakanda, the fictional country from Marvel Studios’ Black Panther films.