Senegalese-American singer and songwriter Akon and his architect Hussein Bakri attend a press conference in a hotel in Dakar, on August 31, 2020, to present plans to create a city named “Akon City”. Seyllou / AFPRapper 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”.
“So I wanted to build a city or a project like this that will give them the motivation to know that there is a home back home,” he said, adding that he had received the blessing — and advice — of Mbodiene’s elders. Speaking alternately in English and Wolof, the dominant language in Senegal, the talent with hits including “Locked Up” and “Smack That” said that Akon City would also include a “village of African cultures”.
He said the project would cost an overall $6 billion but would not name the principal investors because of confidentiality clauses.
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