African vs Bantu

Bantu vs African

African and Bantu both are nouns.

African and Bantu both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
African	Yes	Yes	No	No
Bantu	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Bantu is a hyponym of African; that is, Bantu is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than African:

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Bantu: a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa

Other hyponyms of African include Black African, Eurafrican, Algerian, Angolan, Basotho, Beninese, Burundian, Cameroonian, Carthaginian, Chadian, Cewa, Chewa, Chichewa, Congolese, Djiboutian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Ewe, Fellata, Fula, Fulah, Fulani, Fulbe, Gabonese, Kenyan, Liberian, Libyan, Madagascan, Malawian, Malian, Mauritanian, Moroccan, Mozambican, Namibian, Nigerian, Nigerien, Senegalese, Sierra Leonean, South African, Sudanese, Swazi, Tanzanian, Togolese, Tuareg, Tunisian, Ugandan, Gambian, Ghanian, Guinean, Rwandan, Somali, Somalian, Xhosa, Zairean, Zairese, Zambian, Zimbabwean, Zulu, Berber.

African (noun)	Bantu (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of the African continent
	a member of any of a large number of linguistically related peoples of Central and South Africa

African (adjective)	Bantu (adjective)
of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples	of or relating to the African people who speak one of the Bantoid languages or to their culture

Difference between African and Bantu

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