Akon joins Senegal transport industry

The government owned Le Solei Newspaper, quoted a statement from the country’s Department of International Cooperation, Spatial Planning, Air Transport and Infrastructure that the owner of the labels ‘‘Konvict Music’’ and ‘‘Kon Live Distribution’’, based in the US has acquired shares in the newly established Senegal Airlines.
The Senegalese-American R&B superstar, Alioune Badara Thiam, better known by his stage name as Akon, has joined calls by the government of the country of his father's birth for Senegalese Diasporans to join the private sector in a bid to boost the country's economy.By Kemo Cham.