Father vows to fight Madonna adoption

A 24-YEAR-OLD Malawian man who claims to be the father of a girl Madonna wants to adopt vowed yesterday to fight the US pop icon’s adoption bid.

James Kambewo spoke to the media a day before Malawi’s supreme court was to hear Madonna’s appeal against a judge’s rejection of her application to adopt three-year-old Chifundo ‘Mercy’ James.

“I want Mercy back. I am the biological father of Mercy,” Kambewa said in a telephone interview, adding that he wanted to “take care of her myself.”