Big Brother Africa star shields Madonna | 
Malawi’s Big Brother Africa star Hazel Warren has told critics of Madonna’s twin adoptions in the southern African nation to back off, and branded as racist those who accuse the pop queen of turning her back on deprived white children in favour of blacks. Hazel, the first high-profile Malawian celebrity to wad into the [...]
Madonna’s star power in Malawi
By Nyasa Times
Published: June 21, 2009
Madonna's star power in MalawiMadonna (C), David Banda and Rocco Ritchie arrive to the Kabbalah Center in Manhattan on May 16, 2009 in New York City. Celebrity Sightings In New York - May 16, 2009 Streets of Manhattan New York, NY United States May 16, 2009 Photo by James Devaney/WireImage.com To license this image (57457215), contact WireImage.com | read this item
Eliza Manyoza, a banana vendor in Malawi’s colonial-era capital Zomba, says she has never heard a Madonna song. She only knows the American pop icon as an “adopter” of orphaned children. “I am told she is a nice woman who wants to help our children,” Manyoza, 39, told AFP, with her nine-month-old baby strapped at [...]