False.
Roman generals gave themselves surnames and titles dependent on the lands/people they conquered.
They had more than one title.
Scipio's most famous title just happens to be famous because some people have narrowed that title down to the origin of the name Africa, due to lazy research.
By the time of Scipio, some of the land called "Africa" today was already being called that by some Romans, due to their interactions with the people they named the Afri tribe.
When Scipio conquered a very small part of what's called Africa today, a small part mostly populated by the "Afri tribe", he named himself Scipio Africanus, meaning, "Scipio, conquerer of the Afri people and ruler of their land".
The Afri people was one tribe, not the entire population of the land mass called Africa today.
Afri - Wikipedia.
"The etymology of the term for the country remains uncertain. It may derive from a
Punic (Roman) term for an indigenous population of the area surrounding
Carthage."
Even that probably wasn't their name, another name given to them by Europeans.
The more I research, I don't think there was ever any one name for that land mass, or any one for what we consider tribes today, that was widely accepted.
Ethiopian, Egyptian, Nigerian, South African, Igbo, Yoruba, Jamaican, Haitian... most of that shyt is based in names that white people gave to whoever they wanted to.
We don't know who we are at all.
I used to think it was just us, FBA/ADOS, but these proudly African and Caribbean nikkas have no idea either.
All we have is the names white folks gave us, and whatever cultures we created directly in relation to our interactions with them.
Some groups have just been able to record and remember those names and cultures better than others, since the war began, but we're all out here living a culture that we didn't create naturally before any interactions with the white man.
Before getting in your feelings and debating me, every group of black people, research the name of your nation, the origin of your tribe, the origins of the foods you think are native to your people, your religion, your tribal dances, your tribal marks, hairstyles, every single aspect of your culture, and if you research correctly, what you will find is all of the information you find will start with whatever group you identify with's interactions with white people or other foreign invaders.
Sad...
