{"id":1220,"date":"2020-11-08T18:25:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2020-11-08T18:25:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:25:35","slug":"kanye-west-builds-a-new-city-of-the-future-on-an-island-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/kanye-west-builds-a-new-city-of-the-future-on-an-island-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West: Builds a new \u2018city of the future\u2019 on an island in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following a trip to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/how-do-people-in-haiti-find-it-easy-to-practise-voodoo-along-with-catholicism\" target=\"_blank\">Haiti<\/a> in September alongside Iranian-American venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, rapper and fashion designer <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/kanye-west-likens-backlash-for-supporting-trump-to-racial-profiling\" target=\"_blank\">Kanye West<\/a> revealed the president of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/the-first-caribbean-owned-bank-in-the-uk-has-just-been-launched\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean<\/a> island has given them a portion of Tortuga\/Turtle Island to develop into a \u201ccity of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Touching on the subject during an interview on the <em>Joe Rogan Experience<\/em> podcast over the weekend, the 43-year-old explained how the project would benefit locals on the <a href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/famous-senegalese-island-goree-to-rename-its-europe-square-in-nod-to-george-floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">island<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe go to Haiti and the president gives us this island to develop; to make it a city of the future,\u201d Kanye said. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna have the farmers and the people that live there take ownership of the land they have right now so when it raises in value, they all eat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>More about this<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/kanye-wests-recent-outburst-is-due-to-unresolved-grief-after-moms-death-heres-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kanye West\u2019s recent outburst is due to unresolved grief after mom\u2019s death. Here\u2019s why<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/harriet-tubman-never-actually-freed-slaves-she-had-them-work-for-other-white-people-kanye-west1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harriet Tubman \u201cnever actually freed slaves, she had them work for other white people\u201d \u2013 Kanye West<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/there-are-no-black-leaders-just-hustlers-kushner-reportedly-told-kanye-west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018There are no Black leaders, just hustlers\u2019 \u2013 Kushner reportedly told Kanye West<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/kanye-west-donates-2m-pays-college-tuition-for-george-floyds-daughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kanye West donates $2m, pays college tuition for George Floyd\u2019s daughter<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joerogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.0.0\/svg\/1f1ed-1f1f9.svg\" alt=\"&#x1f1ed;&#x1f1f9;\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>West\u2019s announcement of their partnership with president Jovenel Mo\u00efse and his government, however, did not sit down well with some people on social media, prompting him to clarify the details of the agreement on his Twitter page on Tuesday, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com.au\/lifestyle\/travel\/kanye-west-is-building-a-new-city-of-the-future-in-haiti\/news-story\/65e3b709742c3a6c8c5390ff34d761b4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>GQ<\/em><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Just to be CLEAR: WE ARE IN ENGAGED WITH HAITI\u2019s GOVERNMENT to make a transformational INVESTMENT to bring JOBS, DEVELOPMENT, HELP SUPPORT LOCAL FARMERS and FISHERMEN and Build a new \u00ab&nbsp;CITY OF THE FUTURE&nbsp;\u00bb in a very beautiful country.\u2014 ye (@kanyewest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest\/status\/1321137260406865920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Though there is little information on the reported partnership and project, the rapper joins fellow entertainer <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/akons-6-billion-futuristic-pan-african-city-in-senegal-to-begin-next-year\" target=\"_blank\">Akon<\/a> to jump on the futuristic and smart city initiative. In an August interview with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/eb1181f3e9eae41c1f0ea0749f62cf25\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, the <em>Locked Up<\/em> singer revealed the construction of a $6 billion futuristic pan-African city in his home country of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/how-senegal-came-to-have-its-name\" target=\"_blank\">Senegal<\/a> is set to commence next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 47-year-old musician, born Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, shared his plans of building the city in 2018, describing it as \u201ca real-life Wakanda\u201d in reference to the Afro-futuristic city in Marvel\u2019s movie, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/black-panther-makes-oscars-history-with-7-nominations\" target=\"_blank\">Black Panther<\/a>. He also said the city will use a cryptocurrency called AKoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Providing more details about the project, the musician told the <em>Associated Press<\/em> he hoped it would create jobs for locals in the West African nation as well as serve as a \u201chome back home\u201d for Black Americans and other people in the diaspora who are being racially discriminated against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe system back home treats them unfairly in so many different ways that you can never imagine. And they only go through it because they feel that there is no other way,\u201d said Akon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo if you\u2019re coming from America or Europe or elsewhere in the diaspora and you feel that you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a trip to Haiti in September alongside Iranian-American venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, rapper and fashion designer Kanye West revealed the president of the Caribbean island has given them a portion of Tortuga\/Turtle Island to develop into a \u201ccity of the future.\u201d Touching on the subject during an interview on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/kanye-west-builds-a-new-city-of-the-future-on-an-island-in-haiti\/\"> Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,54,1],"tags":[366,368,367,365,369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}