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$6 billion Akon City: Senegal officially scraps project

$6 billion Akon City: Senegal officially scraps project

Authorities in Senegal have officially abandoned Akon’s $6 billion futuristic pan-African city project and have reclaimed most of the land that was to be used for it, according to a report by Bloomberg. Akon, in 2018, described his smart city project as “a real-life Wakanda” in reference to the Afro-futuristic city in Marvel’s movie, Black…

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