The farmer, who insists his son was not abandoned, told Closer magazine: "Her brother’s name was also David and she sent him pictures of my son and said he was going to come and collect him.

"We were waiting for them both to come back to the village, but Madonna took him first. If these Americans had adopted him, no-one would have ever caused this fuss and I could be living my life as normal."

Madge takes David across the pond - Oct 30 2006
Pop diva Madonna has taken new son David Banda on his first trip to her native US. see photos

The 48-year-old singer took the Malawi-born baby and her two biological children, Lourdes, nine, and five-year-old Rocco, to New York yesterday.

The star is due to film several TV interviews while she’s in the Big Apple, which look likely to focus on David’s controversial adoption, reports the Daily Mirror.

She will appear on NBC’s Today Show today and will appear on the popular Regis & Kelly programme tomorrow.

Madonna, who is also promoting her children’s book, English Roses: Too Good To Be True, may also be interviewed by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien before returning home.

"She will be in New York a few days promoting her book and an NBC special on her world tour this year," Madge’s press agent Barbara Charone is quoted by the paper as saying.

Madonna makes visits promise - Oct 27 2006
The father of the Malawian baby boy Madonna is trying to adopt said the singer agreed to bring the toddler back to visit every three or four years.

Peasant farmer Yohane Banda, the biological father of 13-month-old David Banda, told ITV News that he was very happy with the adoption arrangement.

"We made an agreement in court... for David to lead a better life... I was happy with that," Mr Banda said.

"Every three or four years they will bring him to visit... I’m delighted he’s been welcomed into that family."

Madonna has been stung by criticism that she has bypassed Malawi law to "buy" a baby by offering two million dollars (£1.1m) to help orphans in the impoverished African nation.

But Mr Banda said Madonna should not worry about the criticisms levelled against her.

"Where were these people (Madonna’s critics) when David and I really needed help?" he said.

"I’d like to tell Madonna she must not worry about what people are saying."

This week, the singer told US chat show host Oprah Winfrey how ill the little boy was with pneumonia when she met him, adding that he had tested negative for HIV despite the fact his mother and three siblings died of Aids.

And she quashed reports that she had taken advice on her adoption bid from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who has two adopted children from Cambodia and Ethiopia.

Father manipulated by media - Madonna - Oct 26 2006
Madonna does not believe claims the father of her adopted African son did not understand what he was doing when he agreed to give her the little boy, she said in an TV interview being aired today.

The star told US chat show host Oprah Winfrey the media had manipulated Yohane Banda into saying he thought she was only looking after his 13-month-old son David temporarily.