JOHANNESBURG—Elon Musk’s promise to provide cheaper, faster, and more reliable internet access in Africa is proving to be very difficult to keep, even for someone as famously indefatigable as he is.
The business magnate and super-investor is the founder and chief engineer of SpaceX, CEO of Tesla, and owner of Twitter, although he’s struggling to get his revolutionary Starlink service off the ground in Africa, his home continent, as he confronts a complex web of bureaucracy, greed, and incompetence.
