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While Akon has made the headlines last year for his laudable efforts of helping to bring solar power to countries in Africa, now he gets back to less trivial things like putting out his first album in ...

In 2020, the rapper Akon declared he would build his own eponymous city on the site of the coastal village of Mbodiène, Senegal. Akon envisioned Akon City as a real-life Wakanda, the Afrofuturist ...

A aerial rendering of California Forever in Solano County. (Image courtesy SITELAB urban studio) In 2020, the rapper Akon secured 136 acres of land to build his own eponymous city on the site of the ...