During the last few decades, the field of cultural and literary studies has started to show serious concerns about worldwide environmental degradation and its effects on literature and human society. As a result, several green approaches to literature have sprung up such as ecocriticism, postcolonial ecocriticism, ecofeminism, bioregionalism etc. Bioregionalism, one of the literary environmental approaches to literature, is gaining popularity within the environmental humanities studies. Started primarily in western North America, especially California and British Columbia, bioregionalism is a sub-discipline of the development of the environmental movement during the 1970s and "continually inflected by the particularities of diverse places and cultures" (Lynch et al. 3). Here in this research, I will situate bioregionalism in the context of the major plays of Wole Soyinka, the African Shakespeare. But before that, I will trace the origin and development of the African literary environmentalism. Through references to the vast literary and critical works of African as well as contemporary Nigerian writers and activists, I will try to show that with some unique, region-specific environmental problems and potentialities, a bioregional reading of Wole Soyinka can enrich and expand the boundary of bioregional literary study.