Senegalese-American born singer, Akon has plans to build a $6 billion city in his country of Senegal as a home back home.

In a conference, the singer stated that he had already laid the first stone in the Atlantic Ocean village of Mbodiene in Dakar.

The singer had stated that while he grew up in America, a lot of African-Americans really never understood the culture.

In his statement, he said;

"So I wanted to build a city or a project like this that will give them the motivation to know that there is home back home."

Akon stated that the city will offer hotels, a university, hospitals, casinos, film studios, architectures, and also African sculptures.

The singer stated that the fictional country of Wakanda from the Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Black Panther added as additional inspiration.

He continued his statement saying;

"As you come in from America, or Europe or anywhere in the diaspora, and you feel like you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be their first stop."

"We are still talking with partners."

The singer who has the hope of boosting solar power in the continent therefore, the city will be built with raw materials.

"I need a building that looks like a statue that you can take home...like real African sculptures that they make in the villages.

"The shapes might be weird but they are African."

He hopes for the town to get to 500 hectares (it is at 55 hectares for now) and reach a population of 300,000.


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Instead of am to build company to benefit him and his country he wan build House
I tire for Africa and Africans

good thinking; change begins with me, and this is a perfect example!

spy24:
Instead of am to build company to benefit him and his country he wan build House
I tire for Africa and Africans

Must you nag at everything. Perhaps you're unaware this would improve livelihoods. Fix your hate

BlueOrange:



Must you nag at everything. Perhaps you're unaware this would improve livelihoods. Fix your hate

Oga I am not nagging

Africa is underdeveloped for a reason this is one of them

Mehn shey na money Dem dey talk about

6blillion

God when

BlueOrange:



Must you nag at everything. Perhaps you're unaware this would improve livelihoods. Fix your hate

no mind am... people are just prepared to be savage all the time: Akon is actually talking about building a city with several amenities, I wonder what's wrong with that this oga had to nag over!

spy24:


Oga I am not nagging

Africa is underdeveloped for a reason this is one of them

My dear, it's not your money. No one is responsible for your condition

Akon and stories

This guy go broke for nothing, by the time him finish build d city I for don rich pass am..
Better make him use him money invest or better things for the masses for Senegal..
A building worth that amount in USA does mean anything...

Where's the blueprint

spy24:
Instead of am to build company to benefit him and his country he wan build House
I tire for Africa and Africans

wetin you you build?


Must you criticize?


We have useless leaders and now one person volunteers out of his own money to bring development in his own way all of a sudden someone must criticize.smh

spy24:


Oga I am not nagging

Africa is underdeveloped for a reason this is one of them

You can't change anything behind your keyboard. Most great men didn't have time to be commenting hateful words, reason because they were busy. So what did we got here you in nairaland and you are still nagging. Try and be optimistic for once if you can't change the "under developing country".

Just build one better hospital abeg