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'.
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