DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — American R&B singer Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic pan-African city, announcing Monday that construction will begin next year on the $6 billion project despite global tourism’s uncertain future.
Akon, who first announced his idea for the utopian city back in 2018, has described it as a “real-life Wakanda,” comparing it to the technologically advanced fictional African place portrayed in the blockbuster film “Black Panther.”
On Monday, Akon said he hoped his project would provide much needed jobs for Senegalese and 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,” he said.
“So if you’re coming from America or Europe or elsewhere in the diaspora and you feel that you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first stop.”
Akon, who was born in the United States to Senegalese parents, spent much of his childhood in the West African country where in only 44 percent of rural households had electricity even in 2018.
Senegal will probably capture American blacks and sell them into slavery in the Muslim slave markets. Back to African basics. They can try their made up progressive culture on that one.
I wish him the best of luck with it (Akon seems like a good dude), but I think its gonna fail, and it'll just get blamed on white people for "making the world systemically racist" such that they cant succeed anywhere unless reparations are provided to "lessen the effects of whyte oppression".
“So if you’re coming from America or Europe or elsewhere in the diaspora and you feel that you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first stop.”
Why just visit? Please, STAY!
Oh yeah, this is an idea I can really get behind. We need a full blown program to encourage them to return to this fantastic and surely non-racist utopia of the motherland.
I have even drummed up some promotional material that I am sure will get them all excited and raring to go.
And, hey, think big. What about aircraft manufacturing?
Plans eventually call for Akon City to have its own hospital,
Sure, they will experience bumps in the road (oh wait, poor choice of idiom – they don't have many roads and the ones they do are all made of bumps).
“'However, the project was designed by a Dubai-based architect because Akon said he couldn’t find a suitable one in Africa fast enough.' It’s also unclear what percentage of the building materials and construction teams will be sourced locally.”
I call bullshit on this. Just look around. The locals have been designing and doing construction for millennia.
I guess in a pinch they could just import some common beavers. No excuses. The oppressed are waiting.
And of course they will have to deal with the haters. Such as.
“'We have a lot of hope. Many promised us projects, but we saw nothing,' village chief Michel Diom said.” Whiney ass little village chief. They probably did not put enough goats for his harem in the plan.
This is personal to Akon. “he found his grandmother was still using candles in Senegal to light her home. 'It just doesn’t make sense how 20 years can pass by and the condition doesn’t change,' he said back in 2016.” Golly, he just can't figure it out.
Granted. They have had some “hiccups” with their electrician training program.
Akon, who first announced his idea for the utopian city back in 2018, has described it as a “real-life Wakanda,” comparing it to the technologically advanced fictional African place portrayed in the blockbuster film “Black Panther.”
On Monday, Akon said he hoped his project would provide much needed jobs for Senegalese and 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,” he said.
“So if you’re coming from America or Europe or elsewhere in the diaspora and you feel that you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first stop.”
Akon, who was born in the United States to Senegalese parents, spent much of his childhood in the West African country where in only 44 percent of rural households had electricity even in 2018.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/09/02/singer-akon-to-build-6-billion-futuristic-pan-african-akon-city-in-senegal/