A RAPPER planned to spend £4.7billion building a crypto city of the future but five years later it’s still unfinished and plagued with problems. Akon intended to set up his modern metropolis – dubbed ...

Rapper Akon has set his sights on building a sprawling $6 billion city in his Senegal homeland to welcome Africans of the diaspora to their "home back home". The R&B; star boasting two multi-platinum ...

For the unversed, the Senegalese American R&B star got the ball rolling on his eponymous city, estimated to cost $6 billion, back in 2020, when Senegal permitted Akon to build near a farming village ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this March 25, 2009 file photo, singer Akon arrives for the Breaking The Silence, Beating The Drum concert event at ...

Akon is giving back in a major way. The R&B singer is using millions of his own dollars to bring solar-powered electricity to one million homes in Africa by the end of the year. The ...