Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Akon may not be lonely for much longer. The famed R&B singer is going ahead with plans to build a new $6 billion smart city in ...

Turns out Akon’s real-life Wakanda wasn’t meant to last forever. For the unversed, the Senegalese American R&B star got the ball rolling on his eponymous city, estimated to cost $6 billion, back in ...

Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic pan-African city, announcing Monday that construction will begin next ...

Rapper Akon has set his sights on building a sprawling $6 billion city in his Senegal homeland to welcome Africans of the diaspora to their "home back home". The R&B; star boasting two multi-platinum ...

Devyne Stephens’ legal teams cites a federal agent to support their allegations that the singer is shady. Devyne Stephens claims that he is owed millions from the “Locked Up” singer and believes that ...

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. The West African nation had ...

Akon’s Wakanda is on the way, he tells Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur. “My biggest thing was I promoted it way, way, way too early,” Akon confessed during the interview. When pressed, he said it was sheer ...