Over three decades of engineering at the heart of Africa.
From SAI in 1990 to Afrika German Consult since 2015 — an institutional journey built project after project, on the region's most demanding infrastructure programmes.
An institution that endures
Afrika German Consult is part of an institutional continuity that began in 1990 in Kinshasa, under the name Société Africaine d'Ingénierie (SAI). In 2007, it became Fichtner SAI, a subsidiary of the German group Fichtner GmbH & Co. KG, before taking the name Afrika German Consult in 2015. Three names, one and the same backbone: the same teams, the same methods, the same standards, across three decades and several organisational configurations.
This longevity is not a marketing argument. It is the sine qua non condition for technical credibility in our sector: an engineering consultancy is built over time, on accumulated lessons learned, on the trust progressively granted by funders, governments and project owners.
AGC has built its experience at the heart of Central Africa, on the region's major water, energy and road infrastructure programmes — alongside institutional clients such as SNEL, the DGGT and international funders. This geographic and sectoral foundation is the basis of our current positioning; that of the largest independent engineering consultancy in the DRC, and one of the most recognised in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Founded in 1990 in Kinshasa under the name SAI — Société Africaine d'Ingénierie — by Mr. Yoko Nyengo, the firm has operated successively under three legal entities, retaining its full methodological portfolio through each transition.
The name Afrika German Consult, adopted in 2015 upon becoming independent, reflects both the legacy of the partnerships that shaped our know-how and the company's irreducible African roots.
From SAI to Afrika German Consult
What carries through the transitions.
The institutional transitions — from SAI to Fichtner SAI, from Fichtner SAI to AGC — were not ruptures. They were organisational evolutions that affected neither the working methods nor the relationships with clients and international funders.
What was passed on from one stage to the next was, above all, know-how: approaches to supervision engineering, funder reporting methods, a culture of independence from contractors and suppliers. These practices, forged in the field since 1990, form AGC's technical heritage.
Integration into the Fichtner group between 2007 and 2014 formalised and reinforced this heritage. These standards — in quality control, compliance with safeguard policies, mastery of FIDIC procedures — were durably internalised by the teams.
The autonomy regained in 2015 does not erase this heritage. It consolidates it: AGC is today the sole holder of this know-how in its market, with no compromise or external dependency.
An independent consultancy.
A heritage that endures.
Headquarters in Kinshasa, SAIC subsidiary in Brazzaville. AGC continues to operate on the sub-region's major infrastructure programmes, working directly with funders and governments.
Proficient in World Bank, AfDB, KfW, AFD and UNDP policies. Integrated reporting and safeguard procedures, applied on every assignment.
Energy, water, infrastructure and the environment have been at the core of AGC's activity from the outset — a specialisation built over time, not through opportunistic diversification.
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