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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...