How come Angelina Jolie can travel the world, picking up stray babies at every layover while Madonna, who has tried twice to give a seemingly needy Third World kid an obscene change of circumstance, can’t get a break?

People magazine is running an interview with the father of the most recent Malawian child (this time, a girl) to whom Madonna took a shine. Dad says he doesn’t want his daughter (who has lived in an orphanage all four years of her life) adopted, and the Malawian courts have put the cabosh on Madge’s Out of Africa ambitions until her appeal hearing.

Still, like an episode straight from Geraldo, the kid’s father appears out of nowhere, says he’s never met his daughter (paternity confirmation cloudy) and wants her raised in the Malawian culture. His argument, once thoroughly translated, will surely boil down to “B**** better have my money.”