Plans for a futuristic African city backed by New Jersey-born music mogul and entrepreneur Akon have been scrapped, and the site in Senegal will now be developed as a $1 billion resort, Bloomberg ...
ATLANTA (Atlanta News First/Gray News) - Akon, the five-time Grammy-nominated singer who rose to prominence in the early 2000s with his song “Locked Up,” was arrested last week near Atlanta in the ...
FILE - Akon performs at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado, File) (Bruna Prado, Copyright 2022 The Associated ...