When the earth begins to crack apart and ancient forces awaken, a young man named Zuberi discovers he is connected to the Heart of Africa—a source of spiritual power capable of saving or destroying the world. To stop the ancient being Azhari from destroying the balance of the continent, Zuberi must traverse uncharted lands and gather five bearers of fragments of a primordial artifact. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more he realizes that the true enemy may be linked to the origins of the world itself.