Akon: Got $1 Billion Chinese Credit Line & Gave Electricity to 80 Million Africans
Akon stopped by to talk with VladTV about his light up Africa Project, how he used to live without electricity, and how the politics of starting his project were extremely tricky. Akon let us know that he grew up in Senegal a small country on the West coast of Africa. Akon grew up without electricity and running water, and when it came time to eat, cook, or wash he had to use the same water from a running water well for everything. “When I came to the United States, and [saw] the projects or what they claimed to be projects, Vlad I thought they was living in luxury, compared to what poverty is back home…” Akon explained that the US citizens have it a lot better than others around the world.
So what led to Akon lighting up Africa? His grandmother was the main inspiration. He explained she never moved from her hometown and still lived without electricity. “Every time I would come, I would try to upgrade her, but she would never take it… one day I said ma I’m not coming to visit you anymore… you have to at least let me put electricity in the house. Come to find out the grid was so far out; I don’t care how much money I had there was no way I could bring electricity to her.” That’s when he said something had to be done, not just for his grandmother but for everyone in the rural area living without power. “Without electricity, you can’t even begin to develop a country, let alone your own home.”
Akon got started by partnering with a some of his Billionaire friends he made along his career, and he wanted to build power plants in the five major areas of Africa so the countries could share the plants, but as he got his investors together, he began running into the politics. “I started to realize how deep it was cause this is the type of business that starts real wars, the politics was little heavier than I expected…”Akon explained it was too complicated for him to be dealing with, so while searching for another solution, he came across Solar Energy. “So I went to China, met up with some friends out there, some manufacturers, and aligned myself with one of the biggest companies in China, that’s own by the Chinese Government, that manufactures Solar…” Akon learned a lot while doing this project, like how there was a significant tax on solar products due to George. W Bush. “He did it because his main agenda was in oil, he needed the oil to keep burning right, so anything renewable he wanted to keep away because if effected the money.” Akon took advantage of all of the unused solar products, and the Chinese manufacturers gave him a Billion dollar credit line to start his project. Akon’s project is now in 15 countries, and he’s provided almost 16 million people in Africa with power, and energy.
They obviously didn’t let him tour the labor camps where the manufacturing of Chinese solar products begun or the slaves doing the labor while incarcerated based on being a Muslim. He should go build music and film studios in China and see how well it does after not being allowed to. And China prob owns everything and the land and the local govts in Africa that he helped. They’ll be speaking Chinese in 10 years and paying with digital yuan for the power and water and it won’t ever be free.
How much value did China extract in minerals and other things in exchange? 10 billion + votes in international affairs so far? That number will rise to hundred of billions over the next decades, trillions even. They're not doing this out of the goodness of their own hearts.
I don't believe akon about grow up home without electricity and water akon come from upper middle class family they reason all his move to America and akon his brother going evry summer to Senegal for vacation akon lighting Africa is joke
Thank you @akon for being a REAL LIFE example of what an artist should be trying to do. But ya'll notice he didn't get any help from America he had to go somewhere else. Js
So,let me get this.The poverty here is easy, that's what you're saying.The poverty in the states is nothing compared to whatever country your talking about. Dude you obviously don't have a clue.Quick advice, to live in it is to be in it, walk a mile in somebody's else's before you and this other fool you're talking to make comparisons.Dumb asses
akon making it seem like Africa is a country and he brought us electricity. don't embarrass us akon. if you brought electricity to senegal (a country in africa) good for you and your country but don't make it seem like africa is a big village and you eventually brought electricity here.
The Chinese won big time on this, lol. Black Americans wouldn't know. They don't read. I'll give Africans 1 billion if I had it got me free natural resources for the next 200 years. That's exactly what he did.
They obviously didn’t let him tour the labor camps where the manufacturing of Chinese solar products begun or the slaves doing the labor while incarcerated based on being a Muslim. He should go build music and film studios in China and see how well it does after not being allowed to. And China prob owns everything and the land and the local govts in Africa that he helped. They’ll be speaking Chinese in 10 years and paying with digital yuan for the power and water and it won’t ever be free.
the man next to him falling asleep from too much info
how do they charge the cell phones up
lol does that guy on the right blink? staring vlad out
How much value did China extract in minerals and other things in exchange? 10 billion + votes in international affairs so far? That number will rise to hundred of billions over the next decades, trillions even. They're not doing this out of the goodness of their own hearts.
He sold out AFRICA to the COVID CLAN PEOPLE
I don't believe akon about grow up home without electricity and water akon come from upper middle class family they reason all his move to America and akon his brother going evry summer to Senegal for vacation akon lighting Africa is joke
Thank you @akon for being a REAL LIFE example of what an artist should be trying to do.
But ya'll notice he didn't get any help from America he had to go somewhere else. Js
Akon is very much pasionate about this for sure, what on earth is going on with the fella on the right lol wake up dude
Nobel peace price
So,let me get this.The poverty here is easy, that's what you're saying.The poverty in the states is nothing compared to whatever country your talking about. Dude you obviously don't have a clue.Quick advice, to live in it is to be in it, walk a mile in somebody's else's before you and this other fool you're talking to make comparisons.Dumb asses
Don't sleep man don't sleep
This is the definition of pan-Africanism
Now China owns Africa
homeboy was offa PERC
akon making it seem like Africa is a country and he brought us electricity. don't embarrass us akon. if you brought electricity to senegal (a country in africa) good for you and your country but don't make it seem like africa is a big village and you eventually brought electricity here.
The Chinese won big time on this, lol. Black Americans wouldn't know. They don't read. I'll give Africans 1 billion if I had it got me free natural resources for the next 200 years. That's exactly what he did.
Hilarious that Western countries, led by the US are now trying to develop the African continent….
Salute to this man