Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic pan-African city, announcing Monday that construction will begin next year on the $6 billion project despite global tourism’s uncertain future.

In 2018, Akon shared his plans of building a futuristic pan-African city in his home country of Senegal, describing it as the as a “a real-life Wakanda” in reference to the Afro-futuristic ...

The other project is a reported $6billion futuristically designed metropolis on the coast of Senegal called Akon City. Together Akoin and Akon City are supposed to represent the future of African ...