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R&B singer Akon is building a ‘real-life Wakanda’ worth $6 billion in Senegal – 9Travel
The award-winning R&B singer Akon is going ahead with ambitious plans to build a “futuristic” city in Senegal that he says will be a real-life version of Wakanda, the hi-tech nation portrayed in Marvel blockbuster Black Panther.
On Monday, Akon, real name Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, laid the first stone for Akon city in Mbodiene park, 100 kilometres from Dakar, the country’s capital city, and said work would begin next year.
“We are looking at Akon city to become the beginning of Afr…
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