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 ...

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 ...

Herds of cows meander across the one-lane highway that leads down Senegal's coast to Mbodiene, a farming village surrounded ...

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 ...

American R&B singer Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic pan-African city, announcing Monday that construction will begin next year on the $6 billion project despite global tourism's ...

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 ...

Shirley MacLaine Coming to 'Terms' With Her NM Estate With a bent for all things New Age, Shirley MacLaine is looking for new signs of life outside of Santa Fe. The decorated actress, at age 80, is ...

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 ...

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 ...