Senegal scrapped R&B singer Akon’s plans for a multibillion-dollar city development on the country’s Atlantic Coast, and opted for a scaled-back project in the debt-stricken country that will rely on private funding.
Most of the land previously set aside for a futuristic “Akon City” is back under state control after the artist failed to deliver on his $6 billion dream of a real-life Wakanda — the fictional country from Marvel Studios’ Black Panther films.
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.
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