My opinion is way out of date, as I haven't rode in Africa since 1972. BUT, if ever I've seen a bike that is not appropriate for the Africa I knew, this is it! The roads I knew in Botswana were mostly comprised of deep, soft sand that had been ploughed into long surface ridges by passing lorries (trucks). To safely negotiate these roads you needed really rough "knobby" tires that would grip the sides of the ridges and climb them. Gasoline was hard to find, so you needed lots of range, which is incompatible with nearly one whole litre of displacement, which is also a ridiculous amount of power on sandy roads. And traction control is not needed at all with much less power. Then there's the obviously top-heavy weight. Lots of Africa grows a nasty thorny vine that hides low to the ground and will puncture your tires. I could fix a tire on my Honda 175 in the bush with my bare hands, a tube patch, and a hand pump. I got lots of practice doing this, without removing the wheel. So they got the need for tubes right on this bike, but can you get at them without machinery? Heavier bikes generally have stiffer tire sidewalls, making squeezing them in by hand for a repair quite difficult. All that weight means that in too many places you can't use a side or center-stand to work on the bike, you have to lay it down, and then pick it back up!
Of course, as a "tough-guy image enhancer" it looks great! Just don't think it would be good for touring in Africa.