AIIC Africa, a melting pot of different cultures, is one of AIIC’s twenty-three regions. AIIC Africa is composed of qualified interpreters based in Central, East, Southern and West Africa.


AIIC Africa has 192 members working in 24 countries. This group of professionals provides quality interpreting services at meetings on diverse themes for international, continental and regional organisations as well as governmental and non-governmental institutions.

A new development in the AIIC Africa Region is the increase of interpretation schools in the Region. Besides the European Commission and United Nations Office at Nairobi, there are sponsored interpreter training programmes run by the Pan African Masters Consortium in Interpretation & Translation (PAMCIT) in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, and Senegal. There are many other private initiatives on the continent. Cameroon, for example, which had one interpretation school for 25 years, has witnessed a five-fold increase in the number of schools.

These initiatives will go a long way towards boosting the number of trained interpreters in the African market and, consequently, the supply of skilled professionals.