Has this happened yet? One only has to look at present day Africa to see all of these things happening at an alarming rate. Thousands die every day due to hunger (famine), The amount of AIDS cases in South Africa has reached such a number that it is considered a national disaster or (plague).This says nothing of the cholera epidemics, the black plague and other such devastating disease outbreaks of the past. Due to the great amount of sickness and poverty, there is also a great amount of crime in most African countries. People are committing genocide in Africa. Genocide is the systematic killing of a racial or cultural group.