Akon City and Akoin show "many of the trademark characteristics of fraudulent business ventures such as Ponzi schemes and pyramid schemes," according to an affidavit. Hussein Bakri/BAD Consultant/Sem ...

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 ...

It's over between Akon and his wife. Or one of his wives. Tomeka Thiam filed for divorce the rapper, who grew up in Union City and Newark, citing irreconcilable differences, on Thursday, Sept. 11, ...

Akon at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards Arrivals, MGM Grand, Las Vegas/Depositphotos *Grammy-nominated artist Akon remains steadfast in his commitment to building Akon City, a futuristic urban ...

Rapper and entrepreneur, Akon, shared the whitepaper for his upcoming ‘Akoin’ cryptocurrency project exclusively with Cointelegraph. The document describes Akoin as a cryptocurrency “designed for ...

Rapper and singer Akon has announced the creation of his own cryptocurrency, the Akoin, to be used in his new crypto city. Rapper and singer Akon of twelve Billboard Top Ten Hits, including the famous ...

The award-winning R&B singer Akon is going ahead with ambitious plans to build a “futuristic” city in Senegal that he says will be a real-life version of Wakanda, the hi-tech nation portrayed in ...

(AllHipHop News) Though Akon hasn’t been present on the mic or released an album since his 2008 effort Freedom, the Senegalese-American artist/producer remains relevant behind the scenes as he adds ...

Akon has insisted that jailed rapper T.I. was "set up" when he took part in a dangerous weapons deal. The 27-year-old, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr, is in custody for allegedly sending his ...

During the past week, Akon — born Aliaune Badara Thiam in St. Louis, and raised in Senegal until he was seven — has suggested to local media that he may try to launch an IPO for his New York-based ...