Channel
African Library
@AfricaLib
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Telegram's recommendations · Cite this entry
2,621subscribers
+33 since we began measuring on 24 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001580897116 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @AfricaLib |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 28 February 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 14 September 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 6 November 2026 |
| Measurements held | 16 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 6 November 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/AfricaLib |
Topic
Other / unclassifiable — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 15 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 77% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Nov 2026, 18:38 | 2,621 | -3 |
| 3 Nov 2026, 11:55 | 2,624 | +6 |
| 31 Oct 2026, 02:17 | 2,618 | +1 |
| 22 Oct 2026, 17:36 | 2,617 | +2 |
| 19 Oct 2026, 14:36 | 2,615 | -1 |
| 16 Oct 2026, 13:54 | 2,616 | +2 |
| 13 Oct 2026, 21:56 | 2,614 | +4 |
| 8 Oct 2026, 06:15 | 2,610 | +2 |
| 1 Oct 2026, 17:38 | 2,608 | +16 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 01:39 | 2,592 | -1 |
| 14 Sept 2026, 23:47 | 2,593 | no change |
| 8 Sept 2026, 21:00 | 2,593 | -1 |
| 3 Sept 2026, 19:59 | 2,594 | +5 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 08:17 | 2,589 | +2 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 10:04 | 2,587 | -1 |
| 24 Aug 2026, 17:30 | 2,588 | first reading |
Engagement
Posts not read yet. This entry is on the register from its profile alone; the post reader has not reached it. Engagement figures appear here once posts have actually been measured — we do not publish a rate before we have the readings behind it.
Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels
The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.
@lyf4g · 20,991
Telegram ranks this channel #35 of 54 here — alongside 53 others — read 22 September 2026
@tuko_news · 24,115
Telegram ranks this channel #56 of 63 here — alongside 62 others — read 15 September 2026
@BooksThief · 51,513
Telegram ranks this channel #67 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 24 August 2026
This channel appears in 3 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 6 November 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“African Library” (@AfricaLib), 2,621 subscribers as measured 6 November 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/AfricaLib.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.