Akon’s $6 Billion ‘Wakanda’ City Abandoned – Only a Welcome Center Got Built (Senegal)

Techiegamers ^ | 7-5-25 | Keith Anthony

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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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: 2018; acon; africa; africandiaspora; akoin; akon; akoncity; blackpanther; carnivalcruiselines; cyptocurrency; mbodiene; rap; rapper; rb; renewableenergy; senegal; wakanda

[dynachrome]

Africa wins again.

[Salvavida]

Pastor Manning sums it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woAFfMOakcQ

Remove all food and drink items away from your computer before you press play.

[Chani]

**snicker**

[ClearCase_guy]

They should have hired me — I could build nothing for half that much money.

[BipolarBob]

There goes my retirement dreams in Wakanda.

[Chani]

just wow

[ETCM]

So my billion dollar fortune in $Acoin is worthless? Damn, there goes my retirement plan.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The only people that kind of thing was going to attract are those who like to think they are victims of oppression because they do not fit in. Fact is they are going to not fit in in Africa much worse then they do not fit in in the USA or Europe.

You are not going to attract workers or innovators because they already are busy getting on with their life.

[Leaning Right]

> seven years of missed deadlines, fading crypto fortunes and a single half-finished welcome centre that now shares its lot with grazing goats <

Let’s look on the plus side. Everyone involved now has a resume enhancer when applying for a job in a Democrat-run US city.

[Telepathic Intruder]

We have a real life Wakanda. It’s called Chicago.

[Salvavida]

Here is the longer, more subdued, history lesson by Pastor Manning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjx_yaQ62fE

[Bullish]

Let’s cut to the chase... How do they blame whitey for this?

[No name given]

Correct.

[x]

He should have got Diddy and Beyonce on board.

[catnipman]

half-finished welcome center [typical african project]:

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Chicongo.

[gundog]

[frank ballenger]

New National Lampoon Vacation movie has the Griswolds make it all the way to the place and find only the welcome center.

Shows why sequels aren’t saving Hollywood.

[Captainpaintball]

WE WUZ KANGZ

[Secret Agent Man]

Chicago

Detroit

Atlanta

Baltimore

Philadelphia

St Louis

Memphis

All disappointingly real life Wakandas