Akon City to be set up at Senegal

AKON (Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam), the famous Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist and actor has recently announced that he is going to build a futuristic city in Africa. He made this announcement on his social media handles recently and informed people about the upcoming ‘Akon City’ in Senegal. He recently tweeted, “Just finalized the agreement for AKON CITY in Senegal. Looking forward to hosting you there in the future”. The Akon City is going to be situated outside Dakar and will be a global ecotourism destination in future. The Akon City is going to be a crypto-city built on 2,000 acres of land and is already authorized by Senegal’s state-owned SAPCO tourism company. Senegal's tourism ministry in a statement said, “The singer wanted to build a sustainable ecotourism village that would campaign for the environment. Akon City shall run entirely on renewable energy through the artist’s solar-power project, Akon Lighting Africa. Beyond his status as an artist, it is Akon, the investor who believes in Africa". Akon spoke to media about his upcoming crypto city and said, "With the AKoin we are building cities, the first one being in Senegal. We're securing the land and closing out all the legislation papers for the city. We want to make it a free zone and crypto currency-driven as a test market. If it works, we will scale it out to all the other countries in Africa so all the cities are connected. It's going to be a 50-to-100-year project, most likely. I probably won't even live to see it finished. But for the project in Senegal, we have a 10-year deadline for that city to be built out. We're currently raising all the money for it now; some of it will be through hedge funds outside of Africa, and the majority of it will be through NGOs and investors within Africa itself".

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