Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Roman province of Africa was a territory on the northern coast of the continent. It was established in 146 BC after Rome's conquest of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It covered roughly present-day Tunisia, the northeast of Algeria, and the coast of western Libya along the Gulf of Sidra.
The province was established in 146 BC, following the Roman Republic's defeat of Carthage in the Third Punic War under the general Scipio Aemilianus.
Africa was said to feed the Roman populace for eight months of the year, with Egypt supplying the other four. It was regarded as the wealthiest Roman province after Italy. Its fields produced roughly one million tons of cereal annually, alongside olive oil, textiles, marble, wine, and pottery exports.
A Muslim Umayyad army under the general Hassan ibn al-Nu'man al-Ghassani conquered Carthage in AD 698. This defeated the Exarchate of Africa and ended Roman and Christian rule in the region.
The Vandals, who conquered the region by AD 439, were adherents of Arianism, the semi-trinitarian doctrine of the Egyptian priest Arius. They used it as grounds to persecute the Chalcedonian Roman Africans and Berbers under their rule.
Notable Roman Africans named in the record include the comic poet Terence, the novelist Apuleius of Madauros, and the emperor Septimius Severus of Leptis Magna. Others include the theologian Augustine of Thagaste and the Christian writers Tertullian and Cyprian of Carthage.