List of Roman governors of Africa


Rome appointed governors of Africa from its conquest of Carthage in 146 BC until the province was lost to the Vandals in AD 439. The extent of 'Africa' varied time to time, but area/province encompassing and surrounding Carthage as a representative city of this region was always considered 'Africa' in a narrow sense.

146–100 BC

Unless otherwise noted, names of governors in Africa and their dates are taken from T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic,, vol. 1, and vol. 2.
Inscriptional evidence is less common for this period than for the Imperial era, and names of those who held a provincia are usually recorded by historians only during wartime or by the Fasti Triumphales. After the defeat of Carthage in 146 BC, no further assignments to Africa among the senior magistrates or promagistrates are recorded until the Jugurthine War, when the command against Jugurtha in Numidia became a consular province.
  • P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus
  • uncertain 146/45–112/11
  • L. Calpurnius Bestia
  • Sp. Postumius Albinus
  • Q. Caecilius Metellus Numidicus
  • C. Marius
  • L. Cornelius Sulla
  • uncertain 105–100/90s

    90s–31 BC

During the civil wars of the 80s and 40s BC, legitimate governors are difficult to distinguish from purely military commands, as rival factions were vying for control of the province by means of force.