I received the tidings of Madonna’s adoption of an African boy with much joy and sincere admiration for the pop star. It is refreshingly encouraging to see an increasing response to the plight of Africa’s children from Hollywood. S0, i was taken aback from the outcry it has generated in certain quarters. It is tellingly nauseating and utterly lamentable to learn of the coalition of human rights groups that oppose Madonna’s adoption on account of Malawi adoption law that prohibits foreign nationals from adopting the country’s children.

Are laws - uncommon, at that - more salient than the well-being of hungry souls? Did not Christ break the law when he healed the sick and bury the dead on Sabbath Day?

Where were those human right groups during the genocide in Rwanda, when death hiccuped to well nigh one million and mutiny abounded, when traffic jammed and rivers choked with dead bodies? Where were they at that time, at that most needed time, when the senseless, wanton murder surpassed that of 911 three times a day, every day, for a hundred days?

Where are they now when to-date over 400,000 have been massacred in Darfur and over 2.5 million more are homeless and meatless, hunted down with unabated violence?

Where are they when men, women and children go for weeks, nay, months without food, and feel the pangs and gnawings of their stomach, and are thus reduced to contending with maggots for the offal of currupted carcasses?

And, where are they when countless women and girls are raped and gang-raped with such violent disregard that surgery is required to put their raw and broken parts back together, robbed of the opportunity to have children and marked with permanent, painful scares from the bloody deed?

I applaud Madonna for her genuine kindness and may God bless her for her simply humanity.

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