American-Senegalese musician Akon has heaped praises on Ghanaian musician Black Sherif, describing him as one of his ...

Akon City will be here before we know it, according to Akon. During a recent interview, Akon confirmed that the city he is building in Senegal will be open for living by 2026. In addition to that, he ...

Security stepped in after Akon's inflatable ball sank into the packed crowd during his performance.

Multi-platinum artist Akon shared updates on his ambitious $6 billion Akon City project in Senegal during a recent AllHipHop interview with Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur. The entrepreneur admitted to ...

You know the voice. You know the hits. "Lonely." "Locked Up." "Smack That." For millions around the globe, he is simply Akon, a musical titan whose sound defined an era and still resonates today. But ...

Akon is many things. He's a 5x-Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and producer. He discovered and signed Lady Gaga when she was a freelance studio backup singer. When ringtones were a thing back in ...

During a candid interview with AllHipHop‘s Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur, he said the city is on the way. Announced with great fanfare in 2018, Akon City was billed as a futuristic, eco-friendly city in ...

Akon Lighting Africa, established in February 2014, is dedicated to delivering solar power to communities across the African ...

The history of hip hop is full of rappers expanding their brands to every conceivable field, but Akon may be the first rapper of all time to have an actual city named after him. Akon City, to be exact ...

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 ...

Ten minutes before the start of a benefit concert at Harlem's Apollo Theater, and rapper-singer-songwriter Akon is brawling with his deejay over how to hook a stodgy crowd of Manhattan philanthropists ...