When a video of Akon performing Umrah surfaced, many fans went wild over the idea that ‘he had converted to Islam’. Well its time to bust that myth. The Smack That singer was always a Muslim, not a convert.
Haji Akon in Macca 🙏🏾 #Islam #Muslim pic.twitter.com/tmTuKmH5vr
— faisal 🇸🇴 (@maahir60) March 3, 2020
You’d think out most of us would know all we can about our favorite artists (or maybe that’s an unhealthy obsession). The singer previously opened up about being a Muslim and attributing his success to his faith.
Recently he performed Umrah while in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Akon was in Saudi Arabia as part of his tour.
What’s next for Akon?
Other old news that resurfaced with this Umrah video, is that Akon is making his own city.
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With the help of China, the Mr. Lonely singer plans on providing electricity to millions in Senegal. He’s developing an area to urbanize it really, rather than make his own city.
https://twitter.com/AsadImran123/status/1235163604359532544
Are we looking at the creation of Wakanda IRL?
Yeah. Wakanda forevaaa
— مسلم بالجيت (@muslimbaljeet) March 4, 2020
Some people thought this was a joke.
https://twitter.com/AsadImran123/status/1235182821154721798
It’s best it doesn’t cause they’ll try to Assassinate him lol
— NPC (@BabyRambo_) March 4, 2020
The numbers are indeed exaggerated.
That’s not more than half the population of Africa lol you crazy . Africa is a whole continent . Population is estimated at 1.3 billion & I’m sure there’s even more ppl than that
— Beezo 🥶 (@Branndonn5) March 5, 2020
All headlines dating as far back as 2015 have reported 600 million. Do you know better than they?
— Kid Vista (@KidVista) March 5, 2020
Prove he’s not. Where are the numbers that show how many people he’s “actually” bringing electricity to then if you know better than these publications?
— Kid Vista (@KidVista) March 5, 2020
The whole population of westafrica where akon is changing lives is about 367M people, most populus country Nigeria (200M), electricity is supplied by the government which is a monopoly, akon hasn't ventured in North, eastern and southern Africa. How did pple get to that number?
— Zizi-abo (@ziziaboo) March 5, 2020
While the Senegalese-American artist still earns plenty with his concerts and how popular his music is to date…..China is paying the bulk of the money.
https://twitter.com/h1wantsgwop/status/1235240145777025024
This in turn raised conspiracy theories about China developing African states like the Congo, Ethiopia, etc as a colonization tactic.
https://twitter.com/saeedilad3/status/1235301119888437252
Akon City
The truth is Akon really is creating his own city in Senegal. The singer wanted to created a ‘futuristic city’ for eco-tourism. The project is legit and was authorized by Senegal’s state-owned SAPCO tourism company.
The ‘crypto-city’, built on 2,000 acres of land, will even have its own cryptocurrency called ‘Akoin’. Akon actually announced all these details earlier this year.
Just finalized the agreement for AKON CITY in Senegal. Looking forward to hosting you there in the future pic.twitter.com/dsoYpmjnpf
— AKON (@Akon) January 13, 2020
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Akon City will actually be a sustainable eco-tourism village. With everything run on renewable solar power. The objective being to campaign for the environment.
That’s not all. The Akon City in Senegal will be the first of many if it is successful. This might expand to a 100-year project of inter-connected crypto-cities across Africa.
“If it works, we will scale it out to all the other countries in Africa so all the cities are connected. It’s going to be a 50-to-100-year project, most likely. I probably won’t even live to see it finished. But for the project in Senegal, we have a 10-year deadline for that city to be built out.
We might really be looking at Wakanda here.
