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I don't think community driven mesh networks are a realistically sized solution for the entire continental connectivity .
Certainly that would be best for the many nations of the continent. However, that hasn't happened and high speed internet as a basic utility has been commonplace as a utility in huge parts of the world already for decades. So without the ideal of a coalition of NGOs, are the under served nations on the African continent just supposed to go without instead of the tech companies building the infrastructure, and maintaining the ownership that comes with that, to bring these services as is detailed in the article?