Alexander Witkin (2 February 1907 – 17 December 1961), who performed as Afrique, was a South African singer and impressionist who starred in theatre in Britain and the United States in the 1930s and 1940s.
[3] The owner, Vivian Van Damm, wrote that he picked him because of his stage presence, saying: "He had no act, no set routine.
One of his most popular impressions was of the Prince of Wales; although the Lord Chamberlain said that it was "most undesirable and in very bad taste", he had no powers to prevent performances in nightclubs, though Afrique dropped the impersonation soon afterwards.
[5] He first performed at the London Palladium in 1936, toured South Africa with Larry Adler in 1938, and appeared in the 1939 film Discoveries.
[1] In a 1940 British Pathe film clip, he impersonates Maurice Chevalier, George Bernard Shaw, Hitler, and singer Peter Dawson.