John Turner, whose articles on Black circus formers over the centuries we
have published in the BASA Newsletter asks if anyone can see a "similarity
between 'Fanque' (pronounced 'funky' in Brazil) and a word in an African
language'. A colleague of John's has suggested that this might be a
possibility 'in view of Pablo Fanque's father (described as a butler,
deceased, in 1848) possibly having come to Norwich as a slave and been
trained as a house servant'.
Marika
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