A month before, it seems safe to assume, many of these people had never heard of his native land, a landlocked African nation of about 13 million people bordering Mozambique, Zambia, and Tanzania. Suddenly, David became the world’s best-known Malawian because it was his good fortune to be adopted by Madonna, the pop star who is to TV cameras what honey is to bears.
10月份，全世界几十亿人都知道了马拉维的一岁男孩戴维。而仅仅一个月前，大概还有很多人从来没听说过戴维的祖国，一个与莫桑比克、赞比亚和坦桑尼亚接壤的仅有1300万人口的非洲内陆国家。而突然之间，戴维就变成了世界上最知名的马拉维人，因为他有幸被麦当娜领养，而电视镜头见了麦当娜就像狗熊见了蜂蜜一样疯狂。