{"id":753412,"date":"2019-11-27T19:24:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T19:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/27\/im-building-my-own-city-in-senegal-it-will-be-ready-in-10-years\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T19:24:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T19:24:25","slug":"im-building-my-own-city-in-senegal-it-will-be-ready-in-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/27\/im-building-my-own-city-in-senegal-it-will-be-ready-in-10-years\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m Building My Own City In Senegal &#038; It Will Be Ready In 10 Years&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ --><\/p>\n<p><strong>American music superstar of Senegalese descent, Akon in a recent interview has disclosed that he\u2019s working on developing his own city in Senegal revealing that it would be called \u201cAkon City\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He indicated that he started building the city since March this year and he expects it to be completed in 10-Years time.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, he stated that he will use his cryptocurrency, \u2018AKoin\u2019 to build the city\u2019s economy and the whole city will have its own airport for people to fly in and out.<\/p>\n<p>Akon said;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s Akon city. It\u2019s all renewable, the Akon-tainment solar city. It\u2019s all renewable. A real physical place, it\u2019s going to have a real airport. 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