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...

among others. Akon has since been prolific in charitable and philanthropic endeavors. He launched the non-profit Akon Lighting Africa in 2014 and has...

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...

African heritage and emigrated Africans. With notable people of African heritage such as Idris Elba relocating to Africa to create ‘Zollywood’, Akon creating...

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...

Stage Lighting Design: The Nigerian Perspective. Indiana, USA: Society of Nigerian Theatre Artistes, Indiana University. ISBN 978-978-8065-01-2. AfricaNews...

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...

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...

Collaboration "My Love" – Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. "Smack That" – Akon featuring Eminem "Deja Vu" – Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z "Shake That" – Eminem...

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...

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...

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...

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",...

Retrieved February 15, 2009. Harris, Chris (January 14, 2008). "Michael Jackson, Akon Are 'Startin' Somethin' on Thriller 25 Track". MTV. Archived from the original...

Mark Taylor, and Carlos Paucar. The album features collaborations with Akon, Usher, Nicole Scherzinger, Sunidhi Chauhan, Ludacris, DJ Frank E, Pitbull...

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...

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...

documentary". Pulse Nigeria. Retrieved 20 July 2022. Egbo, Vwovwe. "Akon: Singer and his Lighting Africa Team meet Lagos State Governor". Retrieved 17 September 2018...

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...

with other Latin American artists, including Daddy Yankee, Ozuna, Shakira, Akon, and Pitbull. In 2011, Vakero became the first recipient of Best Urbano Artist...

regional performers such as Beyoncé, Chris Brown, Sean Paul, Rihanna, Cascada, Akon, Usher, Maroon 5, Kumar Sanu and natively born Trinidadian International...

Khalife, Kesha, Alexandra Stan, Sean Kingston, T-Pain, Warda Al-Jazairia, Akon, Lil Wayne, Sting, Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, 50 Cent, Majida El Roumi,...

WVU Coliseum and Canady Creative Arts Center, with past performances by Akon, The All-American Rejects, The Fray, Kelly Clarkson, Ludacris, Maroon 5,...

April 14 Gino Bona, marketing professional Adrien Brody, actor April 16 – Akon, rapper, singer/songwriter, and record producer April 18 Jad Abumrad, radio...

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...