The construction of Akon City in Senegal has faced delays and controversy. The first building, the welcome centre, is currently under construction in Mbodiene. The project was announced by US-Senegalese singer Akon five years ago, but the first phase was supposed to be completed by the end of 2023. However, the project has been plagued by delays and controversy. Jean Charles Édouard Sarr, a maintenance engineer and cryptocurrency enthusiast, has a personal connection to the project as he grew up in Mbodiene.
A herd of cattle walk past the bare bones construction of the first building to be built for Akon City , the welcome centre , in Mbodiene on October 26, 2023. Senegal Photograph: Guy Peterson/The Guardian Star unveiled plans for a city on the Senegal coast five years ago but the project has been beset by delays. A siege of herons flies unperturbed above the futuristic curvature of an oddly solitary white concrete building in Mbodiène, a coastal village in Senegal .
In theory it will become the “welcome centre” of The plans were first unveiled five years ago by the US-Senegalese R&B singer Akon, and the first phase of construction was supposed to be completed by the end of 2023, but the project has been riddled with delays and controversy. Since childhood, Jean Charles Édouard Sarr, a 55-year-old maintenance engineer and self-confessed cryptocurrency aficionado, has visited his ancestral village of Mbodiène, where his mother is buried. As a graduate, Sarr left Senegal to establish his career in France, where he lived for five years
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