<sod >In an exclusive interview at the time, he told MailOnline: 'I only want the best for my child and I was concerned for him when the custody battle with Rocco was happening.< eod>< sod > In an exclusive interview at the time, he told MailOnline: 'I only want the best for my child and I was concerned for him when the custody battle with Rocco was happening. 'There was a rift and it has now been healed.' Madonna took son Rocco, daughter Lourdes and adopted daughter Mercy to David's home village of Lipunga, close to Malawi's border with Zambia to see his family and receive his tribal name. Yohane said any tension disappeared as soon as he clapped eyes on his son whom he had not seen since he gave him up for adoption at 13 months in 2006 when his mother died. 'I am extremely positive about Madonna. I can do nothing but praise her,' he told MailOnline. 'I am happy. As far as I am concerned, I was told by Madonna that the boy will come back to me once he has been educated. 'Nothing has changed in that respect. David was allowed to come here and explore, he said he would come regularly to the village. 'It is encouraging, and it is what I have known all along, even though everyone else told me he wouldn't come back.'  On Saturday, Madonna made an unannounced appearance in Washington at a rally protesting against US President Donald Trump a day after his inauguration. Madonna had campaigned for Hillary Clinton to become America's first woman president, and told Billboard Magazine after the Democrat's loss that women had a 'tribal inability' to accept a female president.< eod>