Banda calls for Madonna to get in touch

The father of the Malawian baby Madonna is the process of adopting has asked the pop star for an update on his son.

Yohane Banda has told local Malawi newspaper the Daily Times that keeping in touch with Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie since baby David moved to them in October has so far proven difficult.

The impoverished farmer, who gave his son up for adoption, says: "I don't have her phone and mailing addresses. All I want is to find out how my son is but I don't know how I can do it."

Banda made the comments after the newspaper presented him with a €590 check from Scottish nun, Christine Webster who told the paper she believes the infant would have been better off if Madonna had left him in Malawi.

Madonna and Ritchie are bringing up baby David in England, but the pop star insists she's planning regular trips back to Malawi, where she has set up a charity foundation, so that her adopted son-to-be will know his homeland.

But the one-year-old boy's father can't wait to hear about his son's new life: "I want to talk to her (Madonna) now and find out about my child."

But Yohane Banda has dismissed all suggestions that he feels he made a mistake in letting Madonna take his son away from Malawi.

He adds: "All I want is to find out how my child is doing and not to have him back."