The African Bioregional Library encompasses roughly 30,365,000 square kilometers (3,036,500,000 hectares / 7,507,000,000 acres) of land, making it the second largest continental landmass on Earth, with approximately 30,000 kilometers of coastline extending along the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Ocean systems (land area and continental dimensions widely reported in Britannica and United Nations Statistics Division land-area tables; coastline values derived from aggregated maritime boundary measurements published across global geographic datasets). This library organizes the continent into major bioregions that include the hyper-arid Sahara Desert, the transitional Sahel belt, the vast savanna systems of East and Southern Africa, the Congo Basin tropical rainforests, the Ethiopian and East African highlands, the wetlands and floodplains associated with the Nile, Niger, and Okavango systems, the Cape Floristic Region as one of the world’s great biodiversity hotspots, and the distinctive environments of Madagascar and surrounding islands. Within these regions, the African Bioregional Library places cultural, ecological, and historical knowledge in relation to one another, documenting the lifeways, social structures, spiritual cosmologies, and artistic expressions of peoples such as Tuareg, Fulani, Yoruba, Maasai, Shona, Berber, San, Dogon, Himba, Oromo, and many others, whose histories reveal complex adaptations to grazing regimes, agroforestry systems, long-distance trade, ritual arts, and intergenerational knowledge transmission. It highlights endangered and threatened ecosystems including tropical forest corridors, mangrove systems, montane grasslands, and coastal dune environments, while also examining the pressures from climate change, desertification, mining, commercial agriculture, poaching, and rapid urban expansion. At the same time, the library studies traditional conservation practices such as sacred groves, pastoral mobility, rotational farming, and customary law systems governing land and water stewardship, situating them alongside contemporary sustainability science, biodiversity monitoring, and environmental governance debates. In this way, the African Bioregional Library functions as both a research infrastructure and a cultural memory archive, preserving languages, oral traditions, medicinal plant knowledge, architectural forms, musical systems, and material arts while supporting new ecological literacy and fostering an understanding of Africa not as a single homogeneous entity but as an interrelated constellation of bioregions whose human and nonhuman communities are deeply embedded in dynamic landscapes and evolving environmental histories (continental figures and regional categorizations synthesized from authoritative encyclopedic and UN geographic datasets combined with bioregional scholarship).