Akon’s Futuristic Senegal City Project Scrapped
Akon’s plans for a multibillion-dollar city development on Senegal’s Atlantic Coast has been scrapped. According to Bloomberg, the West African country has instead opted for a scaled-back project that will rely on private funding. Most of the land that had been set aside for a futuristic “Akon City” is now back under state control and that project “no longer exists,” Serigne Mamadou Mboup, head of Sapco-Senegal, the state-owned entity that develops coastal and tourism areas, told L’Agence de presse sénégalaise.Most […]
