 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Bennett akaberekerwa muAmersham, Buckinghamshire kuna Louis Bennett naLily Bennett née Black. Akadzidza paChikoro cheHall muHampstead, ndokuzotamira nemhuri yake kuAustralia muna 1951 ndokuenda kuScots College, Sydney. Akazowana madhigirii muArt uye Mutemo nekukudzwa kubva kuYunivhesiti yeSydney uye LLM uye SJD kubva kuHarvard Law School. Baba vake, Louis Bennett, vakanga vari gweta rakakurumbira muSydney, uye saMukuru Mukuru akanga ari mutarisiri wechikwata chaitakura Oberkommando der Wehrmacht yeNazi kuenda kuNurembergnokuda kwokutongwa. Tete vaBennet Major Jane Bennett vakashanda paGCCS paBletchley Park apo vaBritain vakaputsa mitemo inoverengeka yeNazi. 