The image of a smiling woman from Antilles, standing between two bushels of bananas, was the first image used in 1912 to advertise Banania, a banana-flavored chocolate drink most widely distributed in France. Three years later, she was replaced with a smiling African man holding a spoon of the drink like a child and accompanied with the slogan, “Y’a bon” — a phrase of pidgin French that translates to, “It’s good.” https://hyperallergic.com/380053/the-racist-caricatures-of-african-soldiers-that-soothed-french-colonial-anxieties/