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 ...

Akon City is going to be a pilot of what a city in Africa can be. It's a very futuristic city. It's crypto-based. Acclaimed singer Akon has set the ball rolling on a futuristic city in Senegal.

American singer and songwriter Akon has become the official owner of an African city named after him ... The rapper, whose real name is Aliaune Badara Thiam, spent his early childhood in ...