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Akon's futuristic $6billion city in Senegal 'has been SCRAPPED' and will be swapped for 'a realistic project'
The Senegalese government has confirmed that instead of the ambitious plan, it had been scrapped to make way for something more 'realistic'.
The admission marks a stunning reversal for a project once unveiled with great fanfare in 2018, when Akon, 52, real name Alioune Badara Thiam, announced plans to build a futuristic smart city near the village of Mbodiène. Designed with curvy skyscrapers and sleek modern infrastructure, early renderings of Akon City drew comparisons to Marvel's fictional African metropolis Wakanda. The city, Akon said at the time, would boast a hospital, mall, police station, waste centre, school, and even a solar plant all built by 2023 and running on his own digital currency, Akoin.
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