Publisher's Synopsis
Destiny: something to which a person or thing is destined. Fortune: a predetermined course of events often held to be an irresistible power or agency. Africa is the story about a young, charismatic girl who wants nothing more then to realize her destiny. Wrapped in village life, she is trapped in a perpetual void of banality. Aaliyah begins to think nothing will ever change. That is, until the day she meets her destiny. Now, she must choose between the love-of-her-life, or the destiny she has always known was to come. Aaliyah soon finds that destiny is not always as easy as her dreams - face to face with them, she begins to falter...Africa is a story about friendship, war - and a love that can never be. Set in the beauty of the mother land, it opens up into an epic adventure, spanning from coast to cost, following the exploits of a young girl on journey to become a powerful, strong woman.
