could you believe this, Akon Performs in Plastic Bubble to Avoid Catching Ebola in congo .

R&B star Akon has been accused of
going to extreme lengths to avoid
catching Ebola during a concert in
Africa …

by crowd-surfing inside a
giant plastic bubble.
The ‘Locked Up’ singer climbed
inside the airtight blow-up during a
performance in Goma, in the
Democratic Republic of Congo, on
Sunday and rolled over the crowd,
pushed along by the outstretched
hands of 60,000 screaming concert-
goers.

The ‘Locked Up’ singer climbed inside the
airtight blow-up during a performance in
Goma, in the Democratic Republic of
Congo, on Sunday
But his actions prompted breathless
reports from certain media outlets
that, rather than just being a
creative way of performing closer to
his fans, it was a cynical attempt to
shield himself from the deadly virus
that is sweeping West Africa.

‘The Ebola virus is no joke,’
harrumphed The Source website.
‘And to avoid contracting it from
anybody, when Akon left the stage
to crowd surf with the people that
were attending his concert, he did so
in a huge plastic protective bubble.’
What the website did not report
was that the five-time Grammy
nominee has performed inside the
stage prop on a number of previous
occasions including in Perth,
Australia, and Dubai, both in 2010.
Neither of those countries were
battling Ebola outbreaks at the time.

‘As Akon, I see myself as a child of
Africa,’ the artist told the crowd,
who is of Senegalese descent and
spent time in Senegal as a child,
which he calls his ‘hometown’.
He then rolled over the crowd, pushed
along by the outstretched hands of 60,000
screaming concert-goers
His actions prompted breathless reports
from certain media outlets that, rather
than just being a creative way of
performing closer to his fans, it was a
cynical attempt to shield himself from the
deadly virus sweeping West Africa