African vs Ewe

African and Ewe both are nouns.

African is an adjective but Ewe is not an adjective.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Ewe: a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana

Other hyponyms of African include Black African, Eurafrican, Algerian, Angolan, Basotho, Bantu, Beninese, Burundian, Cameroonian, Carthaginian, Chadian, Cewa, Chewa, Chichewa, Congolese, Djiboutian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, 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)	Ewe (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a Kwa language spoken by the Ewe in Ghana and Togo and Benin
	a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana

African (adjective)	Ewe (adjective)
of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples

Difference between African and Ewe

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