Benjamin Joseph Knight Anderson (1834[a]–1910) was a Liberian traveler, politician, and educator.
Benjamin Joseph Knight Anderson was born 1834 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
[3] On February 14, 1868,[4] he embarked on a journey to Musardu, a city in what is now found in Guinea in the western part of the Mandingo region;[2] this made him one of the first people to explore that area.
[4] He is written to have convinced the Liberian government to focus on and develop the area more, because many natural resources could be found there and it was strategic for trading.
[5] In his later life, he stopped exploring and settled down as a mathematics teacher at an educational institution in Liberia.