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Words that might describe Madonna: diva, maverick, humanitarian. But in a language spoken widely in the African country of Malawi, her name takes on a new and unintentionally funny meaning.
“People started to say my name and they had never heard of Madonna,” the 48-year-old singer, talking about her recent visit to Malawi, told AP Television in an interview Tuesday.
“And, in Chichewa, the word ‘madonna’ means ‘distinguished white lady,’ so I think they got very confused.”
Madonna’s efforts to adopt a 13-month boy, David Banda, have set off a media storm. She and her husband, filmmaker Guy Ritchie, were granted an interim adoption order by Malawi’s High Court last month.
The boy has joined her two children daughter Lourdes, 9, and son Rocco, 6 in England. What is it like to have a little one again?
“It’s nice,” she said. “It’s lovely. It’s so great to hold him, you know, and he’s just starting to walk. And just to see that the whole world being new again and to see the world through his eyes is wonderful.”
Madonna has written a new children’s book, “Too Good to Be True,” and said she wants to direct a movie and has a project in mind. She also has an NBC concert special set to air Nov. 22.
When asked if she would retire to focus on her children full time, a smiling Madonna replied, “No. I love my job.”
source : ap

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Nancy O’Dell has had the opportunity to interview Madonna plenty of times over the past 10 years, but now, for the first time she finds an icon who is positively glowing, and for good reason, the son she has adopted from the African nation of Malawi, 1-year-old David Banda.
“The very first night,” asks Nancy, “what was that like?”
“It was a morning, actually,” remembers Madonna. “He arrived at 7 o’clock in the morning and the children were getting ready for school. We were all in the kitchen, it’s that quiet thing that happens in the morning when no one’s totally awake, the coffee’s brewing. He came with my nanny. And the door opened, it was just really quiet & she walked in & she was carrying David & the children just ran to him. Lola grabbed him & held him & it was just this strange quiet moment. It was amazing.”
Madonna also tells Nancy she was “very relieved” to have her son home, especially after all of the visa problems surrounding the adoption.
The singer was forced to leave Malawi without her son in order to make her daughter, Lola’s 10th birthday party.
Madonna tells Nancy that Lola was “bummed out” when she returned home without David because “she thought that was going to be her birthday present. So [she was saying] every day, “~Is David coming? When’s he going to get here?’ They were very excited.”
Nancy notes that Madonna has said she was drawn to him, and asks what it was that made her know that he was the one.
There is no hesitation in Madonna’s answer.
“His eyes. He just had a soulfulness and a knowing look in his eyes and the first time his head turned around & he looked into a camera, I was completely drawn to him & curious about him. He haunted me.”
Madonna’s even learned a song in David’s native language of Chichewa to sing to him.
“One of the ladies that worked at the orphanage was always singing it to him so I said teach it to me.”
And besides lullabies, like most 13-month-olds, David also enjoys learning new things to say.
“He doesn’t have that many words,” says Madonna with a smile, “he says bye bye bah bah and mama. That’s his vocabulary right now.”
Soon, David will get to meet all of his famous mother’s famous friends. Madonna tells Nancy that she is already planning a playdate with Gwyneth Paltrow’s 6-month-old son, Moses, as well as an introduction to her good friend, Rosie O’Donnell.
“I obviously you know relied on her advice a lot, because she’s adopted 3 children, to guide me through this whole process.”
But not even an adoption vet like Rosie could have imagined the drama Madonna would go through when it came to bringing David home.
Nancy notes, “Angelina Jolie goes off and adopts a child and she almost becomes a saint and then there’s this controversy surrounding the wonderful thing you are doing. Did it feel in any way like I’m a little hurt by this?”
“It felt unfair,” says Madonna, “It felt like a personal attack. It felt like it had nothing to do with what I was actually doing.”

source : accesshollywood

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Madonna has stunned an American TV host by asking him to become the godfather of her new Malawian son.
The Material Girl made the tongue-in-cheek offer to Regis Philbin during an appearance on his show, Live with Regis and Kelly.
Madonna popped the question as she defended her controversial adoption of 13-month-old David Banda from an orphanage in Malawi.
She told Philbin and co-host Kelly Ripa that she and British husband Guy Ritchie fancied him for the role.
The singer, wearing a ruffled collar, and knee-high black satin boots, spoke to the TV stars for 20-minutes. She is in the US promoting her latest children’s book, The English Roses: Too Good To Be True, as well as giving her side of the story in the adoption of David.
The baby, along with Madonna’s two children Lourdes, nine, and Rocco, five, are with her on the tour.
It comes ahead of her first British interview on BBC2’s Newsnight programme tonight in which she also defends her controversial adoption of the baby boy.
In the interview, which has been pre-recorded in the US with presenter Kirsty Wark, Madonna reveals she offered to financially help David’s father so he could keep his son in Malawi. But she says her offer was refused by Yohane Banda.
Defending herself, Madonna told the BBC: ‘When you have an entire adult population wiped out and no-one to look after these children, you have got to address the laws and make adoption easier for people.’
She insisted that she had offered David’s father financial assistance to look after the child, which had been refused.
‘I offered that option to the father and he declined. I never met a granny. I was told that from the day that he was left at the orphanage that he was not visited by any extended family.’
Madonna said if she had been told that he had any link with his family she would not have become so interested in him.
‘There were many conditions that made me worried for his life.’
Yohane Banda has revealed that David was due to be adopted by another American family, but Madonna took him first.
Last week, Madonna, 48, appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show to defend her decision to adopt David.
Some critics believe that Winfrey gave the singer an easy ride in the interview, and will be hoping for more difficult questions from Wark.
source : metro.co.uk

Madonna reads to her littlest fans from her new Book “Too Good To Be True”, The sequel to her best selling book “The English Roses”. Click here or on the image bellow to view pictures at WireImage.com.

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