Officials in Malawi apparently claimed that Madonna asked them to select a group of children from local orphanages, from which she chose one for adoption. Spokeswoman Adrina Michiela said: "She asked us to identify boys only, which we have done after visiting four orphanages in Lilongwe."
However, Madonna, through her publicist, is
denying this claim.
"I can confirm Madonna is in Malawi on a private visit. She is building an orphanage and child care center and is involved in other initiatives geared toward helping children orphaned by AIDS through the Raising Malawi organization. She has not adopted a baby despite reports that she has. She's kind of adopting an entire country of children"
I found this interesting because my sister has been living in Malawi for the past four years and has yet to generate international headlines on account of it. She's been helping design public health campaigns there. Last week she even adopted a genuine Malawi puppy. But not a whisper from the media. I'm planning to visit her there sometime next year. It will be my first trip to Africa. Unfortunately Lake Malawi doesn't have a resident monster, so I can't claim the trip as a tax write-off, the way I did my trip to Loch Ness.
Update: You could get whiplash trying to follow this Madonna adoption story. Now the word is that she
really has adopted a baby in Malawi.
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Alex, don't you see what Madonna has done for you? Now you CAN get a tax write-off for your plane fare to Malawi, because your trip is now an expedition to investigate the notorious Malawi Madonna Adoption Hoax!
No one could blame you if you take a few days off from trying to get to the bottom of the Madonna story to visit family.
http://www.newanimal.org/ufiti.htm
http://del.icio.us/mortalwombat/malawi
And there was a killing of nine people by a strange animal:
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/basket6st/basket6st1118744137.aspx
And they had vampires in 2002/2003
http://www.crystalinks.com/vampires2.html (serach for malawi in the text)
Aren't you glad you've got us to do all your dodgy thinking for you!
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/travel/travel_writing/an_exorcism_in_zambia.shtml
The Nyau society is a secretive group that abducts young boys and indoctrinates them into traditional practices. They would make an excellent investigation -- if you can find them (hint: look near the Zambia/Malawi border).
http://www.google.com/search?q=nyau&hl=en&lr;=
Madonna Files Adoption Papers in Malawi
LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) - Madonna filed adoption papers at a Malawi court Thursday, and a judge issued an interim order allowing the celebrity couple to go home with a motherless 1-year-old boy...
Not so much a hoax now, is it?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6044744.stm
They had an interview with the father last night here in the UK on Channel 4.
Still can't understand why they're adopting a child that has a father and a grandmother though, rather than one with no parents at all.
I guess you could say that this is a real adoption, but a fake orphan.
However,it