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Rapper Akon reveals plans for the futuristic $6bn city that he will build in Senegal modelled after Black Panther's Wakanda
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 2, 2020 | Tom Pyman

Posted on 09/02/2020 9:06:40 AM PDT by C19fan

Rapper Akon has revealed plans for a futuristic $6 billion city in his Senegal homeland modelled on Black Panther's Wakanda.

The R&B star, who boasts two multi-platinum albums, told a news conference on Monday he had laid the first stone for the city in the Atlantic Ocean village of Mbodiene, around 60 miles south of the capital Dakar.

The solar-powered Akon City will offer hotels, a university, hospitals, business and leisure centres including a casino, as well as movie studios, all featuring futuristic designs by architect Hussein Bakri, with African sculptures for inspiration.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: africa; akon; casino; dakar; economics; hospitals; hotels; husseinbakri; mbodiene; moviestudios; schoolofeconomics; senegal; university; wakanda
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To: C19fan

I think he should invest all his money on this wonderful idea.


61 posted on 09/02/2020 10:13:47 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: C19fan

Can we finally carry out the Monroe-Lincoln transfer plan for former African slaves? Liberia was the plan, but Senegal will do.


62 posted on 09/02/2020 10:18:27 AM PDT by montag813 (Nonsenze)
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To: C19fan

Hold on. Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Goodyear, AT&T, Walmart, and Facebook could finance this with their pocket change. I say they should put their money where their mouths are and back this idea.


63 posted on 09/02/2020 10:23:37 AM PDT by suthener
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To: ConservativeMind

Bokassa always wanted to look Napoleonic, whether he was dressed as a general, a president, or an emperor.


64 posted on 09/02/2020 10:32:28 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Covenantor

If you want to know more about Bokassa, may I recommend a podcast called “Dictators?” In June and July, they did two episodes about the man who would be the Central African Emperor.

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/dictators-parcast-network-n2WwBXSAlPr/


65 posted on 09/02/2020 10:37:56 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: C19fan

Good for him - he’s participating in creating and building something, which is a lot harder than endlessly criticizing and tearing down what others have built.


66 posted on 09/02/2020 10:40:25 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: usurper

“This sounds like a innovative investment scam. They will be demanding US companies “invest” in the scam or they will labeled RACIST.”

Yep. If it happens it will be another shakedown of the the American corporate piñatas.


67 posted on 09/02/2020 10:42:25 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: C19fan

It is smart of him to request lots of sculptures to be made. Then Antifa and BLM will have something to tear down when they riot.


68 posted on 09/02/2020 10:53:53 AM PDT by Rad_J
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To: C19fan

hey, his money.


69 posted on 09/02/2020 11:15:28 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: CarolinaPeach

IF they had the “superior technology” what’d they do with it before whites arrived?


70 posted on 09/02/2020 11:17:04 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

We wuz kangz n sheet!


71 posted on 09/02/2020 11:18:41 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

mad Maxine seemed to think it was a real place.....but then again she is in a different world anyway.


72 posted on 09/02/2020 11:19:00 AM PDT by ealgeone
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"Hope it meets the local building codes."

Oh it will, since there aren't any.

73 posted on 09/02/2020 11:19:12 AM PDT by StormEye
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To: C19fan
some text
74 posted on 09/02/2020 11:43:33 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: C19fan
As Mr. T used to say, "I pity da' fool." Romantic notions about Africa rarely survive contact with the reality of just how wretched the continent and its peoples are. For those interested in the subject, Keith Richburg's Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa is an excellent introduction.

Richburg, a capable and well-regarded Black Washington Post reporter assigned to Africa, found that whites and foreigners were exempt from the misery and oppression of Africans by Africans. Treated humanely and with respect by Africans, Richburg realized that he was privileged because of his American accent and passport. As Richburg concluded, "Thank God my nameless ancestor, brought across the ocean in chains and leg irons, made it out alive," he concludes. "Thank God I am an American."

As for Akon's ludicrous scheme, most Africans will suspect that he is working a scam of some sort. And no one with significant cash will invest because it cannot pass even minimal due diligence.

75 posted on 09/02/2020 11:53:01 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: C19fan

Finally! A place with flying cars.

I cannot wait.


76 posted on 09/02/2020 11:54:35 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: C19fan

Akon ‘ran into a lot of African-Americans that didn’t really understand their culture,’ the 47-year-old said.


But Wakanda is fiction. He’s not actually presenting their culture. It’s a silly premise, but it’s his money.


77 posted on 09/02/2020 12:17:10 PM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: C19fan

Cool.

Just get blm’s mailing list for your first colonists.

You can join the other all-black paradises like Haiti and Zimbabwe.


78 posted on 09/02/2020 12:18:52 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: Covenantor

>>With him as mayor no doubt.<<

No, the leader will be selected like all great civilizations in modern times have done so.

A fight to the death.

Note: I think Trump could take biden.


79 posted on 09/02/2020 12:21:07 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: C19fan

I wonder if they’ll have it hidden and shielded...


80 posted on 09/02/2020 12:23:42 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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