Here's a useful article and it seems that the construction contract has already been awarded to an American company.
What's funny is that the picture is not actually from Akon's city.
But from another city developed by Senegal's government on their own and called
Diamniadio, and it's this one that is actually getting built right now while Akoncity is still in planning and bureaucracy stage.
Even funnier is that it's also located close to Dakar but in a far better position.
Black Panther was a movie--and a comic book well before that. Whether Africa is the birthplace of human civilization or not
The DNA of all currently living people has been traced back to a single woman who lived in africa more than 100,000 years ago.
You cut the part about
there is nothing even closely resembling Wakanda anywhere on the continent.
While human beings have their roots in the African continent, there was no "civilization" 100 000 years ago, the Neolithic Revolution when the signs of civilization appeared started 12 000 years ago.
Africa might be the birthplace of humans, but there is no place on this Earth that can claim to be the single cradle of civilization.
Besides, that's history, and history isn't filling a hungry stomach, who cares what happened 10 000 years ago if indeed there was an advanced civilization in Africa it makes things even worse looking how the continent is struggling right now.