Get away from Through Africa starts with a glimmer of text letting us know that it's 1914 and as Europe makes a beeline for The Second Great War, the different pioneer powers are uniting their hang on Africa involving local heroes as troops. That is followed intently by an English watch being cleared out by Germans under the order of Major Veitch (Alexander Leeb, Transformers: Period of Termination) and a report of some significance being caught.