Alliance Française de Nairobi partners with the Alliance Française Foundation, Institut Française, Campus France, Sciences Po, CIEP, CCI Paris Ile de France, Total, Ketebul Music, France 24 and RFI to bring the best of French Culture and Language to Nairobi. The Alliance Française de Nairobi was founded in 1949 on what was then called Victoria Street. Over the past six decades, the institute has actively contributed to AF Kenya becoming one of the largest on the African continent with 4,000 students learning the French language every year. In fact, in order to meet the growing demand for the French language in Nairobi, an annex in Buruburu was created in 2006. The institute is not just a French language training centre but also a cultural melting pot, that allows exposure to students of Nairobi so that they can experience a piece of French tradition, cuisine, art and approach to life. 

The AF institutes are known to be leaders of authentic, quality training in French language and offer courses that are both extensive and intensive across various levels of learning that allows for students from a variety of levels of capability to access education in French and improve from where they first started. AF Nairobi has a state of the art library that offers not just books and but also audio resources, a multimedia catalogue and a digital interface to access knowledge from. This offering is open for non-students as well. AF Nairobi promotes cultural exchange through its active and keen art and culture life, setting up regular shows and exhibitions like CinemAlliance, ShowCase Wednesday for music and improv, informal discussions at Science Café, theatrical performances of French adaptations and Atelier Philo its monthly workshops in philosophy along with a special writer's forum "Mbogi ya Mawriters" to help Kenyan writers in French grow.