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    Akon Lighting Africa is a project started in 2014 by music artist Akon with Samba Bathily and Thione Niang which aims to provide electricity by solar energy...
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    among others. Akon has since been prolific in charitable and philanthropic endeavors. He launched the non-profit Akon Lighting Africa in 2014 and has...
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  • Akon City is a planned community in the M'bour Department of Senegal by Senegalese singer and entrepreneur Akon. The project was first announced by Akon...
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    Blaxit (category African diaspora)
    African heritage and emigrated Africans. With notable people of African heritage such as Idris Elba relocating to Africa to create ‘Zollywood’, Akon creating...
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    Nairobi (category Capitals in Africa)
    windows, which allowed for maximum natural lighting. It had the largest halls in eastern and central Africa. A year prior in 1972, the World Bank approved...
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    Lagos (category 15th-century establishments in Africa)
    Stage Lighting Design: The Nigerian Perspective. Indiana, USA: Society of Nigerian Theatre Artistes, Indiana University. ISBN 978-978-8065-01-2. AfricaNews...
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  • Good Girl Gone Bad but also included some songs from her first two albums. Akon was selected as the opening act for the Canadian dates of the North American...
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    Michael Jackson (category 20th-century African-American male singers)
    posthumous album, Michael, and the lead single "Hold My Hand", a duet with Akon. The Jackson collaborator will.i.am expressed disgust, saying that Jackson...
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  • Collaboration "My Love" – Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. "Smack That" – Akon featuring Eminem "Deja Vu" – Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z "Shake That" – Eminem...
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    Tommy Lister Jr. (category African-American Christians)
    Falling In Reverse "Show Love" Chamillionaire feat. D.A. 2013 "So Blue" Akon 2014 "Touchdown (Remix)" O.T. Genasis feat. Busta Rhymes and French Montana...
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  • List of festivals in Nigeria (category Lists of festivals in Africa)
    Usher, Koffi Olumide, 50 Cent, Ja Rule and Kevin Lyttle, LL Cool J and Akon, Kanye West, T-Pain, Nelly, Nas, Busta Rhymes and Ludacris. Thus festival...
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    Ciara (category 21st-century African-American women singers)
    being able to command a sold-out arena. Ciara, along with Chris Brown and Akon, was a support act for Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad Tour in the United Kingdom...
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  • important role; artists such as Ozzy Osbourne, The Wallflowers, John Mayer, and Akon (with Obie Trice) performed onscreen in the episodes "Skin in the Game",...
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  • Retrieved February 15, 2009. Harris, Chris (January 14, 2008). "Michael Jackson, Akon Are 'Startin' Somethin' on Thriller 25 Track". MTV. Archived from the original...
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    Mark Taylor, and Carlos Paucar. The album features collaborations with Akon, Usher, Nicole Scherzinger, Sunidhi Chauhan, Ludacris, DJ Frank E, Pitbull...
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    Ne-Yo (category African-American Christians)
    industry via their original songs. In March 2013, Ne-Yo collaborated with Akon on David Guetta's single "Play Hard", from his 2012 album Nothing but the...
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    Rowland, as well as his collaborations with US pop and hip hop acts such as Akon ("Sexy Bitch") and The Black Eyed Peas ("I Gotta Feeling"). The music sharing...
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    documentary". Pulse Nigeria. Retrieved 20 July 2022. Egbo, Vwovwe. "Akon: Singer and his Lighting Africa Team meet Lagos State Governor". Retrieved 17 September 2018...
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    Island in Lagos, Lagos State Akon City, the nation's first planned city, co-planned by the Senegalese-American singer Akon. A number of cities were set...
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    regional performers such as Beyoncé, Chris Brown, Sean Paul, Rihanna, Cascada, Akon, Usher, Maroon 5, Kumar Sanu and natively born Trinidadian International...
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  • with other Latin American artists, including Daddy Yankee, Ozuna, Shakira, Akon, and Pitbull. In 2011, Vakero became the first recipient of Best Urbano Artist...
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    Khalife, Kesha, Alexandra Stan, Sean Kingston, T-Pain, Warda Al-Jazairia, Akon, Lil Wayne, Sting, Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, 50 Cent, Majida El Roumi,...
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    WVU Coliseum and Canady Creative Arts Center, with past performances by Akon, The All-American Rejects, The Fray, Kelly Clarkson, Ludacris, Maroon 5,...
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  • April 14 Gino Bona, marketing professional Adrien Brody, actor April 16 – Akon, rapper, singer/songwriter, and record producer April 18 Jad Abumrad, radio...
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    Coal Camp and so on. Electricity The administration pursued a policy of lighting up the rural communities with the provision of electricity. Over 130 rural...
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