"I would like to get my funds back and just walk away". Listen to BBC Trending: Akon's Wakanda and a crumbling crypto dream on the World Service. Download the podcast or listen online.

In 2018, Akon shared his plans of building a futuristic pan-African city in his home country of Senegal, describing it as the as a “a real-life Wakanda” in reference to the Afro-futuristic ...