Akon may not be lonely for much longer. The famed R&B singer is going ahead with plans to build a new $6 billion smart city in Senegal where nationals can live and work—and where members of the ...

The home was built in 1990; Akon apparently purchased it in 2007 for $2,685,000, according to Zillow and tax records. If you're ready to make a full-priced offer, you'll pay roughly $9,200 monthly ...

Rapper Akon has set his sights on building a sprawling $6 billion city in his Senegal homeland to welcome Africans of the diaspora to their "home back home". Akon said he told architect Hussein Bakri ...

Devyne Stephens’ legal teams cites a federal agent to support their allegations that the singer is shady. Devyne Stephens claims that he is owed millions from the “Locked Up” singer and believes that ...

theGRIO REPORT - Singer Akon has launched an ambitious endeavor that aims to improve the lives of over one million people in Africa through his campaign 'Akon Lighting Africa'... Singer Akon has ...

FILE - In this March 25, 2009 file photo, singer Akon arrives for the Breaking The Silence, Beating The Drum concert event at United Nations Headquarters. Akon has a goal of bringing electricity to ...

JERSEY CITY - On Wednesday morning, Mayor Steve Fulop received a call about a late addition to the city's Fourth of July celebration – someone who has gone triple-platinum for four songs. Akon, 45, ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Philanthropist, business mogul and five-time Grammy-nominated artist Akon has announced the signing of a formal partnership between Akon Lighting America (ALA) and leading ...

Akon, the R&B and hip hop singer and producer, has put his ultra-modern Woodland Hills home up for sale at $3.5 million. He renovated the now dazzlingly white house for indoor-outdoor living, creating ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Grammy-nominated singer Akon has a goal of bringing solar-powered electricity to 1 million homes in Africa by the end of the year, and the singer is using millions of his own dollars ...