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.
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Muslim Senegal?
LOL! Satire right?
Didn’t Larry Elder once say Black Americans wear all of their wealth?
Same with Kwanzaa... someone just made up a black holiday for white elementary teachers to celebrate.
Maybe they can celebrate Kwaanza every day in their new Wananda. It will all unicorns and rainbows.
I say 2 years.
“I’ve noticed the the dumbing down of Society has increased substantially the more that Information is readily available to the Masses.”
I used to work with a lot of younger (military) people. A lot of the guys would get online to play Minecraft and World of Warcraft, and not have a clue about current events.
I used to tell them, “almost all human knowledge of the last six thousand years is available online. You guys play games.”
If he really wants this to work, I’ll be glad to rent him some protestant work ethic.
Cultural appropriation, you see, cannot be bought. He can pay for it by the hour.
In the real world people work to create wealth...in the fictional world of Wakanda the wealth sits under the county...
https://www.vulture.com/2018/02/black-panthers-wakanda-explained.html
Fundamental to Wakanda’s self-sufficiency is its supply of vibranium, which nearly every character in Black Panther helpfully explains is “the strongest metal in the world.” Wakanda is the only country on Earth that has it, thanks to a vibranium-filled meteor that crashed into its lands thousands of years ago. You don’t need to know too much about the science of it except that vibranium is able to absorb kinetic energy and release it later, and the near-inexhaustible supply of it has made Wakanda the most technologically advanced nation on Earth. (
Only $6 billion for a city? Such a deal! What’s not to like? Is his name Akon, or A CON?
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