African vs Kenyan

Kenyan vs African

African and Kenyan both are nouns.

African and Kenyan both are adjectives.

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

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

African: a native or inhabitant of Africa
Kenyan: a native or inhabitant of Kenya

Other hyponyms of African include Black African, Eurafrican, Algerian, Angolan, Basotho, Bantu, Beninese, Burundian, Cameroonian, Carthaginian, Chadian, Cewa, Chewa, Chichewa, Congolese, Djiboutian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Ewe, Fellata, Fula, Fulah, Fulani, Fulbe, Gabonese, 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)	Kenyan (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Africa	a native or inhabitant of Kenya

African (adjective)	Kenyan (adjective)
of or relating to the nations of Africa or their peoples	of or relating to or characteristic of Kenya or its people

Difference between African and Kenyan

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