Kenneth Good is an honorary principal fellow in global studies at RMIT. He has taught at universities in Australia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Zambia, Fiji and Botswana. He is the author and co-author of some six books, the most recent of which, forthcoming, is Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy: Power and Weakness in Botswana. His on-going research interests are in capitalist development and democracy, poverty and inequalities, ethics and accountability in government, resource dependency, and southern African politics.