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°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê is saddened to announce the passing of Mr. Francis A. Kornegay Jr., who was laid to rest on Friday, June 18, 2021. While undergoing treatment after a recent diagnosis with cancer, Kornegay passed away peacefully at Wits Hospice in the early hours of June 11. As a renowned academic, colleague, mentor, and friend, he will be deeply missed by °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê and the broader academic community.

Francis Kornegay, a native of Detroit, Michigan was a permanent resident in South Africa. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Global Dialogue, University of South Africa. One of South Africa’s renown students of global geopolitical and strategic trends, Kornegay was a long-term analyst of global South and emerging power dynamics and US foreign policy. As such, he produced, as lead co-editor, Laying the BRICS of a New Global Order: From Yekaterinburg 2009 to eThekwini 2013 (Africa Institute of South Africa).



He also worked on From Global Hegemony to Global Community: Critical Reflections on a US foreign policy predicated on ‘nation-building at home.’ A graduate of the University of Michigan, he earned a Masters in African Studies from Howard University and a Masters in International Public Policy from SAIS, Johns Hopkins. He was a former Congressional Black Caucus staffer, serving under Charles Diggs and Walter Fauntroy.