The rich African geodiversity is underrepresented among the Earth's geoheritage and still remains to be analyzed and disclosed. This requires inventory and evaluation of geosites with the aim of being protected, as well as valuing and monitoring procedures fostering sustainable development through geoeducation and geotourism.

This work presents the current state of geoconservation in Africa based on a bibliometric and mapping analyses of available literature. A total of 244 online documents were analyzed according to its three epistemological dimensions: Basic, Applied and Technical Applications.

The obtained results show that the different dimensions of geoconservation in Africa are biased and geographically limited. Most of them refer to geoheritage diagnosis, i.e., they correspond to inventory and assessment initiatives concerning territories mainly located on the coast and on the northern and southern edges of the African continent, therefore related to Basic Geoconservation. Results also show that Africa displays different types of geoheritage, a dimension that corresponds to Applied Geoconservation, but geoheritage's diagnosis and typology is scarcely developed. Technical Applications of Geoconservation refer to the set of materials, methods and/or scientific services that are useful to society. They include protection legal instruments and public policies assigned to nature conservation or the production of relevant resources for geoeducation and geotourism. While geotourism can display significant development in Africa, conservation and geoeducation are poorly represented. Such results will allow defining a road map for geoconservation in this continent thus assisting decision makers to establish specific priorities for the conservation of the abiotic dimension of nature in Africa.

丰富的非洲地质多样性在地球地质遗产中的代表性不足，仍有待分析和披露。这需要对地质遗址进行清查和评估，以得到保护，并评估和监测通过地理教育和地理旅游促进可持续发展的程序。

这项工作基于对现有文献的文献计量和制图分析，介绍了非洲地质保护的现状。根据其三个认识论维度：基础、应用和技术应用，共分析了 244 份在线文档。

所得结果表明，非洲地质保护的不同维度存在偏差且受地域限制。其中大部分涉及地质遗迹诊断，即它们对应于主要位于非洲大陆海岸和北部和南部边缘的领土的清查和评估计划，因此与基本地质保护有关。结果还表明，非洲显示出不同类型的地质遗迹，这一维度与应用地质保护相对应，但地质遗迹的诊断和类型学几乎没有发展。地质保护的技术应用是指对社会有用的材料、方法和/或科学服务的集合。它们包括分配给自然保护或为地理教育和地理旅游生产相关资源的保护法律文书和公共政策。虽然地质旅游在非洲可以显示出显着的发展，但保护和地理教育的代表性却很差。这些结果将有助于确定该大陆的地质保护路线图，从而帮助决策者确定非洲自然非生物层面保护的具体优先事项。