{"id":6909,"date":"2019-12-02T11:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T08:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:43","slug":"akon-has-started-building-akon-city-in-senegal-with-focus-on-cryptocurrency-and-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/12\/02\/akon-has-started-building-akon-city-in-senegal-with-focus-on-cryptocurrency-and-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Akon Has Started Building Akon City In Senegal With Focus On Cryptocurrency And Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Insider<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may\nnot have thought about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/world\/grammy-awardwinning-artist-akon-announces-he-would-consider-running-for-president-at-one-young-world-a3967116.html\">Akon<\/a>&nbsp;since his song &#8216;Lonely&#8217; took over the charts a\ndecade ago, but the musician has moved from conquering the charts to building\nwhat has been dubbed his very own &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/go\/london\/music\/black-panther-review-all-hail-king-t-challa-a3762306.html\">Wakanda<\/a>.&#8217;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between\nsetting up his&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/showbiz\/celebrity-news\/bitcoin-ripple-and-akoin-guess-who-s-just-launched-his-own-cryptocurrency-a3867966.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">own cryptocurrency AKoin<\/a>&nbsp;and\nvowing to bring electricity to 600 million people in Africa, Akon has been\nquietly building his own &#8216;futuristic&#8217;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/senegal\">city in Senegal<\/a>&nbsp;named after himself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He announced the news last June that he was working on building a \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.icoimpact.co\/akoin\/\" target=\"_blank\">100% crypto-based city<\/a>\u201d and the building is now officially underway, as he announced on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/showbiz\/celebrity-news\/nick-cannon-tweets-love-for-ex-mariah-carey-9711567.html\">Nick Cannon\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;radio show Power 106 Los Angeles that construction has started. On top of that, it\u2019s officially been named Akon City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/insider\/alist\/akon-has-started-building-akon-city-in-senegal-with-focus-on-cryptocurrency-and-renewable-energy-a4297966.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Insider You may not have thought about&nbsp;Akon&nbsp;since his song &#8216;Lonely&#8217; took over the charts a decade ago, but the musician has moved from conquering the charts to building what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}