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Review Article: 1) Chipkin, Ivor: Do South Africans Exist? Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of the "People". Johannesburg: Wits University Press 2007, ISBN 1868144453, 261 p. 2) Dorman, Sara; Hammett, Daniel; Nugent, Paul (eds.): Making Nations, Creating Strangers. States and Citizenship in Africa. African Social Studies Series, Leiden: Brill 2007, ISBN 9004157905, 282 p. 3) Simpson, Andrew (ed.): Language and National Identity in Africa. Oxford, New York: Oxford Univ. Press 2008, ISBN 9780199286751, 448 p. About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the meantime as well as the wide range of related subjects. The new nationalism in Africa and elsewhere shows remarkable differences both in its roots and its impact, compared with that of the national independence movements of the early 1960s.