BBC: 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.
“The Akon City project no longer exists,” Serigne Mamadou Mboup, the head of Senegal’s tourism development body, Sapco, told the BBC.
“Fortunately, an agreement has been reached between Sapco and the entrepreneur Alioune Badara Thiam [aka Akon]. What he’s preparing with us is a realistic project, which Sapco will fully support.”
Known for his string of noughties chart hits, Akon – who was born in the US but partly raised in Senegal – announced two ambitious projects in 2018 that were supposed to represent the future of African society.
The first was Akon City – reportedly costed at $6bn (£5bn). It was to run on the second initiative – a brand new cryptocurrency called Akoin.
Initial designs for Akon City, with its boldly curvaceous skyscrapers, were compared by commentators to the awe-inspiring fictional city of Wakanda in Marvel’s Black Panther films and comic books. more
h/t Salty Cracker. Who has the better story. 😂
*language warning
I hope Akon’s delusions didn’t destroy a lot of other people’s wealth.
Uncle Al,
The Yellow Brick Road?
woohoo
yeehoo
The end result seems to represent Wakanda pretty well.
Akon == “a con”. Coincidence?
Looks like he did better than the Cigar Bill & Killary KLUNTON’s Rebuild of HAITI.
The essence of Wakanda is utopia and Akon city is now just that. Vibrainium might have helped at the outset.
“Take the money and run …”
Wakanda For-Never!
LEGENDARIAN
IAM
DEEP
GROOVES
SAND MAN AND THE DARKSIDES
pyramids would not fly?
Didn’t understand a damn word or that. Senegal, Serigne Mamadou Mboup, Alioune Badara Thiam,
Walter, they could’ve used Upsadaisium instead of Vibranium. Vibrainium is that a real dumbass Brainiac Senagalese brain fart or what.
I cannot stop laughing.
The only people I feel bad for are the ones they ran off the land to make- nothing. It’s like Newsom and Mayor Bass were in charge of the project.