( NewsNation) — R&B singer Akon’s $6 billion plans to build a futuristic city on Senegal’s Atlantic Coast have been cancelled. Instead, the country plans to create a privately funded tourism hub.

Singer Akon's once a $6B Wakanda-inspired dream, Akon City, is now officially scrapped. Here's what it promised, and what's ...

Designed with curvy skyscrapers and sleek modern infrastructure, early renderings of Akon City drew comparisons to Marvel's ...

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Senegal cancels $6bn Akon City over delays and funding issues, pivoting to a scaled-down tourism project backed by private investment.

The Akon city project was expected to be completed by 2023 but has since faced significant challenges and delays.

Akon's $6 billion futuristic city project in Senegal officially scrapped after five years of failed promises, replaced with ...

Reportedly costing $6 billion, Akon City was set to feature a uniquely curved skyscraper but after five years of setbacks, the 800-hectare site based in Mbodiène is still void of any life.

New details for Marvel Television's Eyes of Wakanda, the animated anthology series that will premiere this August, have emerged online.

Todd Harris recently disclosed the first look at the Black Panther series, Eyes of Wakanda, and teased it as a James Bond-style series.

With it stores of incredible technology and endless vibranium supply, why hasn't Wakanda tried to take over the Marvel Universe?

Akon’s Wakanda is on the way, he tells Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur. “My biggest thing was I promoted it way, way, way too early,” Akon confessed during the interview. When pressed, he said ...