Plans for a futuristic city in Senegal dreamt up by the singer Akon have been scrapped and instead he will work on something ...

Akon’s $6 billion plan for a real-life Wakanda on Senegal’s Atlantic Coast “no longer exists,” said Serigne Mamadou Mboup, ...

Senegal's government has scrapped plans for Akon City, the multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency city project led by R&B singer ...

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The “Smack That” rapper and singer also provided an update on the country album that he’s working on in Nashville.

The "Locked Up" rapper's dream for a futuristic Senegalese city may not become a reality.

Grammy-nominated artist Akon publicly accused a former associate, Be.I, of fraud and misrepresentation in a recent video ...

Designed with curvy skyscrapers and sleek infrastructure, early renderings of Akon City drew comparisons to Marvel's fictional African metropolis Wakanda ...

Akon/Getty *Akon’s vision to build a $6 billion futuristic city in Senegal has come to a halt. The Senegalese government confirmed that the ambitious project, which once promised to create a ...

Plans for a futuristic African city backed by New Jersey-born music mogul and entrepreneur Akon have been scrapped, and the site in Senegal will now be developed as a $1 billion resort, Bloomberg ...

Singer Akon had all of Senegal excited about his plans to create a $6 billion futuristic Wakanda-inspired city in the West African country. But four years after he made his intentions known, there ...

Akon's futuristic city in Senegal, known as Akon City, has officially been scrapped. Now the nation will use the land to create a $1 billion resort.