US Singer Akon Finalizes Deal To Build Own City In Senegal

Akon,US singer and businessman of Senegalese descent has finalized agreement to build ‘Akon City’,in Senegal.

In 2018, he talked about building a new futuristic own city in his home country, which will trade exclusively in his own digital cash currency called ‘AKoin’.


In December last year, he said in an interview “It’s a 10-year building block so we’re doing it in stages,” he had said. “We started construction in March (2019) and stage two is going to be 2025. The city will be a five-minute drive from the West African state’s new international airport".