By Joseph Akahome
Madonna seems to have fallen out of favour with the home country of her adopted kids, Mercy James and David Ritchie Cicconne, as its government recently accused the pop star of not consulting with them over her plans to build 10 new schools in the country.
The singer announced in January 2012, her Raising Malawi charity was teaming up with the non-profit group ‘buildOn’ to construct schools, which would educate at least 1,000 children a year.
However, the government of the southern African country has insisted that the singer is only interested in promoting her global image than really helping with education there.
Malawi’s Ministry of Education spokeswoman Lindiwe Chide told reporters the government is ‘fed up’ with Madonna.
Chide said that when the singer last year scrapped a previously planned academy for girls in Malawi, alleging mismanagement and cost overruns, she did not inform Malawian authorities.
‘Now she decides to announce that she plans to build 10 schools without getting authority from us again‘, Chide said.
‘We now feel like this is all about propping up her global image and not in our interest,’ she added.
Continuing, the ministry spokesperson added that, ‘she (Madonna) has no mandate to decide where she wants to build a school because she doesn’t know our needs and where we want new schools … she first needed to consult us, get permission from us before doing anything’.
The 53-year-old singer, who has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is recognized as the world’s top-selling female recording artist of all time by the Guinness World Records, also has other titles that include: fashion designer, children’s book author, film director and producer.
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no mind her, since them no say africa is not organised they think they can come in here and do as they like
Then organise your country or continent to avoid her coming to do such unwanted things. Simple. Chikena.