Serge Michele, a West Africa correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde and Michel Beuret, Foreign Editor of the prominent Swiss magazine l'Hebdo have recently come out with a new book on the economic partnership between China and Africa. Having just ordered it from Amazon, I'm not in much of a position to offer anything in the way of a review (do stay tuned, though...), but from what I was able to gather from the book's table of contents, as well as Harry Hurt's review in the NYTimes, it does appear quite promising - seemingly offering much greater substantive analysis than most hitherto published books.
From what I can tell, one of my gripes with the book will be its rather generic conclusion that "China's arrival has been a boon for a continent adrift" and that the Chinese have "given Africa a real sense of worth, as much in the eyes of Africans themselves as in the eyes of foreigners." While this is certainly true to a point, I'm still waiting for someone to deliver a much more nuanced analysis of the issue. Who knows, perhaps Michele and Beuret deliver elsewhere throughout what seems to be a worthwhile read on a most fascinating subject (naturally, I'm somewhat biased on the matter...).