Starlink Residential is not available in Africa except for handful of countries (Nigeria is the big one). The pricing is $600 for hardware and $100/mo for plan.

Starlink Residential is not available in Africa except for handful of countries (Nigeria is the big one). The pricing is $600 for hardware and $100/mo for plan. Where the extreme poverty line is $700/yr. Starlink will definitely help provide internet for whole villages, or to remote cell towers. And distributing the costs may make them affordable. But my suspicion is that charities will donate hardware and then when support runs out, the villages will cancel the service. You seem to assume that Starlink is the only solution to communications in rural Africa. There are other proposed satellite constellations. There is the traditional fiber optics and cell towers. Starlink in the US is successful because of the failure of government and companies to run lines to rural customers. Most importantly, those options are available if Starlink doesn't work from light pollution.