What color was Augustine's skin? Ok, let me start by saying I don't think more or less of a person because of the color of their skin. I consider racism to be both misguided and a sin.  But, when I visualize a person, I like to think of them in ways that at least approximate their actual appearance.

I am skimming some works of that greatest of the Patristics - Augustine of Hippo, later the Bishop of Milan (in Italy), but hailing from what is today, Tunisia.  He wrote the City of God and the Confessions - two classics still studied more than 1500 years after their creation.

And, as I consider the young Augustine of Hippo - a region of northern Africa, nowadays near the Algerian / Tunisian border - I have this image of a white guy in my head.


That said, he was from Africa.  And indeed, this seems wholly legitimate as well.


And, then I remember, the Arab Invasions that went alongside the rise of Islam also changed the area as well.  

So, it's a simple question - Was Augustine white or black?  Many of the Church Fathers from Alexandria to Carthage would have probably shared this legacy, and I'm just sort of curious - What did they look like?
He's the product of Patricius and St. Monica.
Monica

Augustine's mother's name, Monica, is Berber ... the names Monnica and Nonnica are found on tombstones in the Libyan language - as such Monnica is the only Berber name commonly used in English
From Wikipedia citation of Michael Brett and Elizabeth Fentress, The Berbers, Wiley-Blackwell, 1997, p.71, 293

Patricius
Patricius probably was a Curiale and he was definitely a pagan of the Roman sort, not the tribal African sort.
Conclusion
So, my money is that he looked like his mom, who according to scant evidence was a Berber, like these people:

(source: wikimedia.org)