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Akon is Building Metropolis Called Akon City in This African Country
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justjared.comAkon is moving forward with plans to build a “real-life Wakanda.” The 47-year-old entertainer announced on Monday (August 31) that construction on his $6 billion project will begin in Senegal, Africa, comparing it the technologically advanced fictional African place portrayed in Black Panther. Akon said that he hopes the project, named Akon City, will provide much-needed jobs for the Senegalese and will also serve as a “home back home” for Black Americans and others facing racial injustices. “The system back home treats them unfairly in so many different ways that you can never imagine.
And they only go through it because they feel that there is no other way,” Akon said in a statement via THR. “So if you’re coming from America or Europe or
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