I'm sorry you got downvoted. I've nothing to do with the people who make this toilet, or those who plan to sell it, or the site the article was published on (except of course that I'm a regular reader) so if there is some attempt at viral promotion I got nothing to do with it.

I don't see the article as patronising, but then again I don't live in Africa.

Also, for what it's worth, until recently I didn't fly. I'm an immigrant, living and working away from home; when I went home for the holidays I'd cross Europe by train and boat, which took me three days (and cost more than flying btw). I've had to relent recently, because I just don't have enough holidays time anymore :(

I really hope I don't just believe any old bs, but how should I know? I mean, if I did believe any bs, I wouldn't know it was bs, would I?