Richard Edward Dennett (1857-1921) was an English trader operating out of the Kongo (present day Republic of Congo) in the early 20th century who wrote a number of books that were influential on sociological and anthropoligical research on the cultures of West Africa. He wrote Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort in 1898. It contains more than 30 traditional stories from French Congo which were collected by the Folklore Society of London. His other works include: Seven Years Among the Fjort: Being an English Trader's Experiences in the Congo District (1887), At the Back of the Black Man's Mind (1906), Nigerian Studies; or, The Religious and Political System of the Yoruba (1910) and My Yoruba Alphabet (1916).