"I started realizing as I was growing up and as I was coming up in this business, I allowed myself to be educated, period. And I imagine that was the bit where I became more of an entrepreneur; I understood what the essence of line was." Akon has experienced major success over the form of 2010 with the runaway success of Lady Gaga, who is signed to his record label Konlive. Other acts on Akon's label include T-Pain, Kardinal Offishall, Ya Boy, Red Cafe, Rock City, French Montana and others. Akon, who was innate in Senegal, applied the cognition and teaching he received from mentors and successful executives like Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Jimmy Iovine and Steve Rifkind, to his own label. And the new base is his way of reinvesting his money into the African continent. The mogul recently opened an elementary school in his Senegal, using the issue he earned from touring. "You get to make education really is the key," Akon told AllHipHop.com. "You only got to provide yourself to draw the data and properly use it. With that sentiment in mind, when we created the Konfidence Foundation, it was more so to find a platform to prepare all these children so that they can take a better future with what`s left to get in Africa. We built my first primary school in Senegal, which is an incredible accomplishment because I did it with my own money, my tour money and did it myself." According to Akon, his future task will be to make and build a new University in Senegal for students, in accession to future plans to establish hospitals in the country. "We look like education doesn`t think anything if you aren`t healthy," Akon told AllHipHop.com. "Between health and education those are the two key things to rebuild any country. We need to part with the kids because they receive a lot more growth up to do and a lot more to make in place to create a future for ourselves."
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