I have mentioned The Guardian and the Cork Constitution so now I will have to apologise for lowering my standards and mentioning something from last Saturday's Daily Telegraph.

This article has the headline:-

Grandmother defies convention to sell Golly dolls in effort to reclaim black heritage
It starts:-

Gollywogs have long been considered a symbol of racist stereotyping.

But a retired midwife from Hampshire is defying convention by selling the toys in an effort to reclaim black heritage and raise money for charity.

Charlotte Nightingale, originally from Ghana, is selling her Golly dolls at fairs, school fetes and village shows and wants people to re-think the taboo surrounding them.....

My own opinion is that Ms. Nightingale is a bit misguided and that the Torygraph's intentions in printing the article are dubious and facetious to put it mildly. However, read the article and you will see that it is relevant to this thread. You will see that she has raised a good deal of money for West African schools which is a subject very close to my heart as you can see from one of my websites .... and looking at that again for the first time in a fortnight, I can see that the sources of some photos needs updating.