Kenya vs African nation

Kenya and African nation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Kenya	Yes	No	No	No
African nation	Yes	No	No	No

Kenya (noun)	African nation (noun)
a republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya	any one of the countries occupying the African continent