Rapper Akon to build new city in his home country Senegal with his own currency called Akoin.

The multi-platinum-selling music producer and musician unveils an ambitious project that he says could be “the saviour of Africa”.

Artist Akon is planning to build a futuristic city in Senegal and base its entire economy around a new cryptocurrency named after himself Akoin.


The multi-platinum-selling professional musician and music producer unveiled the ambitious project at a creative festival in Cannes, where he spoke at a panel titled Branding Africa: Blockchain, Entrepreneurship and Empowering the Future.

According to page six, he told an audience at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity that his proposed cryptocurrency – dubbed AKoin – could be “the saviour of Africa in many ways” because of how secure it would be and how it will develop Africa.

It would all be based on a mobile app, which he said would allow citizens of Akon Crypto City “to utilise it in ways where they can advance themselves and not allow government to do those things that are keeping them down” he said.

According to the official AKoin website, the 45-year-old – who has founded two successful record labels – has already been gifted 2,000 square acres of land for his planned city by Senegalese President Macky Sall.

The website describes it as a “real life Wakanda” – the hi-tech fictional African nation.

It would be just a short drive from the capital of Dakar and apparently will boast homes, shops, parks, universities, schools and even its own stadium.

But Akon admitted he is only involved in the envisioning of the project, with him happy to “let the geeks figure it out” when it comes to making it a reality.

Akon – who was born in Missouri but is of Senegalese descent and spent much of his childhood there

And his ambitions do not stop there, as during the same panel he also put his name forward as a potential US presidential candidate in 2020.

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Name gestures, Akoin; what a name.

See how illuminati want to use this guy...

I beg help convert the Akoin to Naira

One African that broke free of the useless ghetto mentality. No more glamour and flashy trash, now its realness and moving Africa forward, one vision at a time.

Akon. Deserves. Accolades.