Robert Farris Thompson, America’s most prominent historian of African art, says that funky is derived from the Ki-Kongo lu-fuki, meaning “positive sweat” of the sort you get from dancing or having sex, but not working.
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (.) by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha (via Findings.com)

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