Rapper Akon, apparently inspired by the pop-culture sensation Wakanda, announced plans in 2020 to launch a $6 billion “futurist city” in sub-Saharan Africa that would utilize a cryptocurrency called “akoin” as its sole medium of exchange.
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For those unfamiliar with the “Wakanda” mythology and its centrality to revisionist African history, here is a primer via Wikipedia (emphasis added):
Wakanda (/wəˈkɑːndə, -ˈkæn-/), officially the Kingdom of Wakanda, is a fictional country appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the country first appeared in Fantastic Four #52 (July 1966). Wakanda is located in sub-Saharan Africa and has been depicted as being in East Africa. It is home to the superhero Black Panther.
Wakanda has appeared in comics and various media adaptations, such as in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where it is depicted as the most technologically advanced nation on Earth…
In recent stories by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, Wakanda is located on Lake Victoria, near fellow fictional nations Mohannda, Canaan, Azania, and Niganda. This places these nations in the eastern half of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Congo is the most technologically advanced nation on Earth; talk about speculative fiction! What a vivid imagination Ta-Nehisi Coates has.
Bless his heart.
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As anyone might have guessed, the project collapsed into entropy with the involved parties all pointing fingers at each other.
Via NewsNation (emphasis added):
Any giant infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa is destined to be an arduous affair, so it’s unclear whether the blame really lies with Akon or with the Senegalese government.R&B singer Akon’s $6 billion plans to build a futuristic city on Senegal’s Atlantic Coast have been cancelled. Instead, the country plans to create a privately funded tourism hub.
In 2020, Senegal officially granted Akon 136 acres of land in Mbodiène to construct the city. But missed payments and minimal developmental progress led Sapco-Senegal, the state-owned entity responsible for developing the country’s coastal and tourism areas, to reclaim almost all the land.
Announced in 2018, “Akon City” was initially pitched as a “real-life Wakanda,” inspired by the fictional, futuristic African nation from the Marvel “Black Panther” films. The project was to include a hospital, a university, a city powered by solar energy and his own cryptocurrency.
To date, only a youth center, basketball court and information center have been built. Akon retains a small portion of the land.
Somehow, surely, though, it’s ultimately going to be framed as the white man’s fault. If that narrative isn’t out there yet, it’s only because the professional racists haven’t figured out an angle they feel is compelling enough to run with (not that any of their angles are overly compelling anyway).
There’s also the difficulty of the often-fraught relations between so-called African-Americans and actual Africans, which perhaps didn’t help grease the skids.
Black American relocates to Kenya, disappointed with lack of black solidarity
If you meet black Africans abroad, as I have, they will almost universally explain that they are not related to and, in fact, do not appreciate black American culture.
Watch this lady with culturally appropriated pink hair (never met an African with pink hair) explain her “lived experience,” as it were, in Kenya.
Black American moves to Kenya.
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