Richard Edward Dennett

Richard Edward Dennett was born in Valparaiso, the son of an Anglican clergyman from Devon, and was educated at Marlborough College. Leaving for West Africa in his early twenties, he spent more than forty years there as a trader, on the coast of the Congo and then in Nigeria. He came to know the Vili, whom he called Fjort, published on their customs, their justice, their religion and the court of their king, then studied the Yoruba. A close associate of Mary Kingsley, he was read by the anthropologists of his time. He died in London on 28 May 1921.

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• TaleNotes on the Folklore of the FjortNotes on the Folklore of the Fjort (French Congo)Richard Edward Dennett · 1898Literature