Yohane Banda Discusses Madonna’s Adoption Of His Only Child

Yohane Banda, whose wife Marita, 28, died a week after their son David was born, was left to reflect on the confusing events of his day in court with Madonna, where the singer moved to adopt his only child. “She was smiling a lot. She told me, ‘Your son is very beautiful and he makes me very happy. I promise to take very good care of him’,” Banda told The Mail on Sunday. “I looked directly into her eyes and said, ‘Although I am giving you my son I want you to look after him well as he is the only one I possess. I want you to keep this boy, raise him, educate him – but you have to know he is my son and he is a Malawian.’ Then she thanked me for surrendering my child into her care. She said: ‘I could not have taken him if you had not wholeheartedly consented.’” Read more.