Benedetta Lanfranchi is a world philosopher based in Rome and specialized in comparative philosophy.
Trained in Anglo-European philosophy, Lanfranchi specialised in African philosophy during her PhD at SOAS, University of London, and has been teaching political theory and ethics at universities in the UK, Germany, Uganda, and Italy since 2014.
She is author of Philosophies of Justice in Acholi (2025), co-editor of Critical Conversations in African Philosophy (2022), and is currently writing her second monograph entitled Digital Intellectuals: Fighting for Freedom in Uganda. She is also currently editing a Special Issue of Theoria with colleague Claudia Favarato entitled Digitality The Maker of (New?) Political World Orders dealing with ethical and political dilemmas pertaining to 4IR and AI.
Benedetta previously held positions at SOAS, University of London, the Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR) in Kampala, and the University of Bayreuth. She is a member of the Editorial Board for the Africa volumes of the Outline of the History of Philosophy with Schwabe Verlag publishers.
Professional links
- https://www.afrophonie.org/benedetta-lanfranchi
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedetta-lanfranchi-529a1253/
Selected publications
- 2025. Philosophies of Justice in Acholi: Responsibility in Times of Collective Suffering, Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- 2025. “Hegemony in the Shadow of Post-reality. Locating Common Sense in the Digitalocene”, International Gramsci Journal, 6, 2: 102-119.
- 2025. “Stella Nyanzi: A Digital Biography”, Kervan International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 29, 2: 153-169.