Akon Lighting Africa

Celebrity Buzz “Locked Up”, “Smack That” and solar lamps: the two careers of Akon Akon, raised between Senegal and the United States, became one of the biggest pop and R&B stars of the 2000s. He later co-founded Akon Lighting Africa in 2014 to bring solar power to African communities, and announced a futuristic city in Senegal.