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 grand dream of Akon City, a cutting-edge metropolis inspired by Wakanda, has met an untimely demise as the Senegalese ...

Akons dream of building a futuristic $6 billion city in Senegal, modeled after Wakanda, has been reportedly shelved. The ...

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

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

Akon announced a cryptocurrency called Akoin and plans for a $6 billion Wakanda-style metropolis in his native country Senegal. Now, seven years later, Senegal has confirmed that the city will not be ...

Senegal government have confirmed that plans for a futuristic city in Senegal, proposed by singer Akon, have officially been ...

Plans announced by Senegalese-American singer Akon last August to build “Akon City,” a futuristic hub in his ancestral homeland, were initially greeted with enthusiasm. But that quickly gave ...

Plans for a $6 billion futuristic city in Senegal, envisioned by U.S.-born singer Akon and inspired by the fictional Wakanda ...

The "Akon City" foundation stone in Mbodiène, Senegal, in August 2021. JOHN WESSELS / AFP. The village of Mbodiène lies 100 kilometers south of Dakar on the Atlantic coast.

Akon posted on social media in January 2020 that he had “finalized the agreement for AKON CITY in Senegal”—though he had previously claimed that construction had already started in March 2019.

In 2020, Senegalese-American singer Akon vowed to create "a real-life Wakanda" in Senegal. But four years on, his futuristic city remains little more than a pipe dream.