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Africa's deadliest conflict: media coverage of the humanitarian disaster in the Congo and the United Nations response, 1997–2008

the work appears to have maintained its structure as a thesis work and has not been formatted or structured as a regular book. For example, the author refers to the “thesis” throughout the book, and the final chapter, although coherent and useful, is but a summary of the thesis. That said, this is a very insightful piece of research that departs from the traditional study of the role and impact of Chinese textile products in Africa through the political economy lenses or econometric models. By focusing on Ghanaian actors’ responses, that is, their construction of the threat Chinese African prints represent, and how they have engaged with that threat, Axelsson’s work, among other things, is a useful reminder that African actors are capable of acting strategically in the face of growing challenges in their engagements with China, and that domestic strategies and policies play a key role in defining the character, impact and implications of the Chinese presence in Africa. This is something African policy makers and scholars in the field should take seriously.