‘EACH KID NEEDS A BLACK DOLL!’
SHE didn’t like playing with dolls when she was growing up. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to – she just felt she couldn’t relate to them.
Most of the dolls in toy shops had blonde hair, fair skin and blue eyes and looked nothing like her or her friends.
At weekends she’d scour flea markets in search of second-hand dolls, then take a crayon or felt-tip pen and try to colour them brown.
“But I didn’t like the result,” Yolanda Yawa-Donkers says. And so when she was 14 she started experimenting with creating her own dolls, making them more representative of the millions of black kids in South
