Posted on 07/05/2025 7:39:57 PM PDT by dynachrome
Senegal has pulled the plug on Akon City, reclaiming almost all of the 55-hectare seaside concession after seven years of missed deadlines, fading crypto fortunes and a single half-finished welcome centre that now shares its lot with grazing goats.
The $6 billion “real-life Wakanda” once promised luxury towers and flying-car parking is now the most expensive visitor kiosk on the continent.
Ambitious Beginnings Announced with Marvel-level fanfare in 2018, Akon called it a “real-life Wakanda” inspired by Black Panther -the plan promised soaring hotels, a 5,000-bed hospital and streets that ran on renewable energy and Akoin.
The project aimed to transform 136 acres of coastal land near Mbodiène into a futuristic city featuring luxury hotels, a university, a hospital, and a tech hub. Akon envisioned the city as a symbol of innovation and a sanctuary for the African diaspora.
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It wasn’t a complete list :)
Deposited in the Wakanda Bank and Trust a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackrock.
So was $6 billion somehow accummulated for this project and stolen/squandered? Or was $6 billion just a notional budget? If the former who put up the $$? USAID?
Yeah I had to go back and look at it. The full term was “Long-legged Mack Daddy”
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