Professor Emeritus of History
East African, Portuguese, and world history
Professor Bennett joined the faculty of Boston University in 1960, becoming professor in 1970. He is the author of Studies in East African History (1963), Mirambo of Tanzania (1971), Africa and Europe from Roman Times to the Present (1975, Second edition, 1984), A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar (1978), and Arab Versus European in Nineteenth Century East Central Africa: A Study in Diplomacy and War (1986).