'Home back home': Rapper Akon plans $6 billion city in Senegal homeland

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Akon City will offer hotels, a university, hospitals, and leisure centers including a casino as well as movie studios.

comic book series, served as additional inspiration, Akon acknowledged, in answer to a question.

"As you come in from America, or Europe or anywhere in the diaspora, and you feel like you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first stop," said Akon, whose real name is Alioune Badara Thiam. He said the project would cost an overall $6 billion but could not name the principal investors because of confidentiality clauses.

 

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