Heart of Africa is about a man who naively went to Africa on a business venture only to become embroiled in conflict. Believing in the American ideals of liberty and justice, he seeks to protect those he intends to employ by approaching the South African government for permission to create a private security force. Seeing an opportunity to increase American aid, they then approach the U.S. embassy. With funds secured, his security force quickly becomes an army moving across Africa under the guise of his expanding business ventures. Decades of war and rebelion provide him with an almost inexhaustible supply of people eager for freedom and a better life.