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 ...

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 ...