Akon giving some game on how African Americans can become millionaires if they fully invest in to moving to Africa.
In an interview on REVOLT’s podcast “Assets Over Liabilities,” he shared his perspective on Africa being “the holy grail” for freedom and generational wealth. “Africa is in a position where if African Americans take position now, every single African American would be a millionaire without even thinking twice because there’s nothing that’s not needed over there,” Akon told hosts Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings. “So, you guys come with the discipline, you guys come with the knowledge, you come with the resources.”
Akon went on to explain how its black people are the ones who run the world so we should take our talents somewhere else. “I mean, you name it. We’re leading in every single sector,” he said. “Just imagine if we all just decided to just take all our bags, withdrew all our money and go to Africa. Where would America be today? It would collapse overnight.”
If your not familiar with what Akon has going on right now, he was been working on building his own city in Africa for people in the community to live in. According to reports, this would a $6 billion project that he will call “Akon City” Akon City was incepted to be a safe space for Black Americans and others facing racial injustices. The futuristic pan-African city is reportedly being built in Senegal, where Akon was raised. “If you’re coming from America or Europe or elsewhere in the diaspora and you feel that you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first stop,” Akon said at the time, while speaking with AP News.
During his most recent interview he gave fans an update on his upcoming project. “The whole idea is to create what the future of Africa should be,” he said. “We have all the resources, we have the manpower, we definitely have the population. So it was just a matter of putting something in a country that can start and pretty much scale out to every other country — that we can copy and paste or at least the idea.”
He added, “If nothing [else] happens, the city will be done and mentally people know that it’s something possible to do in Africa.”