Posted on 12/17/2020 1:22:55 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Akon may not be lonely for much longer. The famed R&B singer is going ahead with plans to build a new $6 billion smart city in Senegal where nationals can live and work—and where members of the African Diaspora will always be welcome.
The 47-year-old Senegalese American singer, known for hits like “Smack That” and “Lonely,” has confirmed that construction on “Akon City” will begin next year despite the pandemic’s devastating effects on global tourism. The 2,000-acre metropolis, which was first touted by the singer back in 2018, will feature a sprawling luxury resort, high-rise condos, recording studios, a stadium, and even its own cryptocurrency, “Akoin.”
The oasis is also expected to run on clean energy—no doubt supplied by the singer’s Akon Lighting Africa, which backs solar energy projects in rural areas—plus features an artificial intelligence data center. Naturally, the new city will have a futuristic aesthetic to match the cutting-edge tech. Penned by Bakri & Associates Development Consultants, the city is characterized by gleaming structures that have an almost Surrealist feel. In fact, the renderings look like the backdrop of a Ridley Scott film.
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Johannesburg used to be great. Now it’s dangerous. No different from Baltimore or Detroit. So we shouldn’t be too critical when we have plenty problems here in the States.
Certain countries are doing better. Namibia is one of them.
I wish him the best of luck.
I read that global warming will turn Africa into a wasteland.
Is he offering migrants from the US “40 acres and a solar panel” as incentive to move there?
Everything in Africa turns to dust and will become a sinkhole for other peoples money. Hopefully all the BLM’s will move to such a paradise.
More like the Frye festival 😁
That's barely 3 square miles. Manhattan is 23 square miles.
I wish him all the luck.
I know a multimillionaire who tried to invest in some stuff in Africa. Mr. Akon is shortly going to find out that Africa is a black hole that sucks up foreign money and makes it disappear.
“Africa would become an agricultural power”
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
“Famed”?
Yeah, I don’t see it happening either.
Fyre Festival II.
Forbes article...FWIW
Akon’s net worth is roughly $80 million dollars, making him one of the richest R&B singers.
Modeled after a snake pit???
Unlikely to be any infrastructure to support the construction of this scale.
No power, no water, sewer, roads...
A concrete plant? Skilled labor? Where would the workers stay and who would feed them while building this project?
Construction equipment, tractors, dump trucks...?
EVERYTHING would have to be imported, trucks to haul to the site? A road to the site?
Musk will have people on Mars before this project is populated.
[Akon simulated rape with an unwilling 12 year old girl on stage about 10 years ago.]
Yikes
Africa would become an agricultural power”
“Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!“
China thinks the farmland there is so good, they’re trying to control a big percent of it.
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