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.

Is Senegal’s Akon City an impossible dream? A futuristic city with atypical architecture, immersed in high-tech and propelled by solar energy and the crypto-currency launched by musician Akon, Akon ...

US-Senegalese singer Akon announced a plan to build a futuristic city in Senegal more than five years ago – a £4.7 billion metropolis inspired by fictional African nation Wakanda. The first ...

Together Akoin and Akon City are supposed to represent the future of African life but after several delays will these plans ever take off?

As for Akon, he remains focused on his ambitious Akon City project, making it hard to predict whether he’ll acknowledge Rose’s story at all. While she didn’t say anything particularly ...

including a $6 billion futuristic city in Senegal and a cryptocurrency called Akoin. Akon’s foray into Congo’s mining sector comes through a U.S.- registered firm called White Waterfall LLC ...