R&B Singer Akon Moves Ahead with $6 Billion "Akon City" in Senegal

straight to your inboxManchester City have given Napoli a deadline to conclude a deal for defender Kalidou Koulibaly - according to reports.City have already strengthened their defence with the addition of Nathan Ake from Bournemouth but the Senegal international remains Pep Guardiola's top summer target.The Blues and Napoli appear to have hit a stalemate in a projected deal, with the Italian club’s owner Aurelio Di Laurentiis not budging from his £72million valuation, while City do not want to

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straight to your inbox A proposal to take Aleks Zinchenko to Napoli as part of a deal for Kalidou Koulibaly would be heard, according to the agent of the Manchester City player. City have still not agreed a deal for the Senegalese defender as they look to correct a mistake from the last summer transfer window and replace Vincent Kompany.

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R&B singer Akon is officially moving ahead with his plans to build a futuristic pan-African city in his native Senegal that he previously likened to the fictional city of Wakanda from the movie “Black Panther.” On Monday, Akon announced that construction on the $6 billion project will begin next year in an effort to help the country’s tourism industry, which--as is happening in many other countries--is ailing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Akon is moving forward with plans to build a “real-life Wakanda.”

$6 billion eponymous development project will transform a Senegalese farming village by the decade’s end.“I want the buildings to look like real African sculptures that they make in the villages,” Akon, 47, told a masked crowd Monday in the seaside capital, Dakar.The Senegalese American artist — whose full name is Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam — was in town to lay the first stone in a corn field on 2,000 acres of coastal land given to him by the Senegalese government.Construction, he said, is

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.

DAKAR, Senegal -- 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

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straight to your inbox Manchester City target Kalidou Koulibaly played in a reserve team for Napoli as their preparations for the new season got underway last night. And that is being seen in Naples as a hint that the Serie A side are already planning to be without the Senegal defender in the season ahead.City are relaxed about the signing, waiting for Napoli to drop their transfer fee demands.

straight to your inboxCity could offer Garcia in Koulibaly swap deal - report City are reportedly considering offering Eric Garcia to Napoli in part-exchange for Kalidou Koulibaly. That’s according to a report by talkSPORT , which states that City could reduce Napoli’s asking price for the Senegal international by offering them another centre-back in exchange.