Opinion of this map?

[Crumpets]

Foreign Affairs Magazine just posted this "real" map of Africa, showing only the portions of states which are under the complete control of the recognized government. Gray areas may be de jure claimed by a government, but are de facto outside of their control. What do you think? Overly simplistic? Helpful? Flawed? Racist? Awesome? I think it's a pretty useful exercise, even if it's not 100%.

[Crumpets]

Just to clarify, in the article associated with this map, they say they use a pretty loose definition of what it means to be "not under government control." Basically, if there are regular attacks, or pockets of anti-government control anywhere in a subnational region, they count the whole region as grey in the map. So, for example, even though the Somali government pretty much has control over 2/3 of the country, it's pretty soft control, and other groups still have a strong presence even in "government controlled" areas. Thus, all of Somalia is grey on the map.