Nijen Translation Agency is a translation company registered in Tanzania with the Registration No. 155028076. The Agency, under the direction of its memorandum of association, transacts in translation and language exchange of Swahili to English and English to Swahili. Nijen translates languages in the fields of law, contracts, commercial transactions, domestic and international arbitration, public health, music, religion, literature, poetry, user manuals and guides, science, technology, linguistics, computer, engineering, movies and filming industry, entertainment, sub-titling, sports, politics, poetry, and other related fields of social sciences. Nijen offers transcription services as well as oral interpretation of public or private meetings, conference proceedings at national, regional and international level, seminar presentations, and proceedings before judicial and quasi-judicial bodies. Banking on the vast experience of its directors, employees and supporting staff and the sophisticated tools it uses in translation, Nijen positions itself as an arbiter of translation, interpretation and transcription of languages in the East African region. Importantly, Nijen collaborates with translators in other source languages, especially Chinese to English and Chinese to Swahili, in situations that demand widening the scope of our translation activities.
Nijen Agency works and delivers on the strengths and competences of its directors and supporting staff who are well trained in translation services. Since it is not feasible to enumerate all the names of its staff, below are the individual names of its directors who oversee the entire workings of Nijen. Based on the vast contacts and collaborations these directors have created and nurtured, their translation experiences which span several years of excellence and perfection, the diversified fields of their translation interests, and their exceptional backgrounds in research and analysis, these directors represent and leads a translation agency of impeccable integrity which exceeds clients’ desires. Thus, clients will find in Nijen a translation refuge, reliable partner, concrete deliverables, unquestionable competence, and a cordial working relationship.
Directors’ Personal Profiles
Mr. Enock Mwita Nkaina
Nkaina is one of directors of Nijen. Professionally, Nkaina has been a translator for over ten years since September 2010. He specializes in translating books, written and oral materials from English to Swahili and from Swahili to English. In his carrier, Mr. Nkaina worked closely as a translator, editor and proofreader to many agencies such as, Pactera from China, SawaTech from South Africa, Mission Translate from USA, We Localize from USA, Connect Global from USA and many other, just to mention a few. He was nominated as a language lead for Pactera Swahili Translators, in translation project of User Interface for Huawei phones and Smart watches. Mr. Nkaina also translates various research tools such as questionnaires and related documents. He is a good proofreader, editor and focuses on sentence spelling, grammar, structure and composition. Nkaina has translated more than 10 Million words and 500 literary works in the fields of social sciences, sociology, ethics, arts and crafts, painting, advertising, public relations, religion, music, poetry, literature and linguistics. His accuracy level is 99%. He has been a supervisor of other language translators in terms of proofreading their sentence grammar, spell-checking and structure. He has also compiled information and terminology used in translation, especially in the area of music, religion and technology. Importantly, Nkaina has worked with publishing houses of the Eastern Tanzania Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in developing translated music and books. He has been proficient in using CAT (computer-assisted translation) tools such as Adobe Acrobat, Caption Maker, Mac Caption, Google Translator Toolkit, Mate Cat, Microsoft Office, and SDL TRADOS. His competence in Microsoft Word such as Excel, Power Point and Word as well as packages for Social Science (SPSS), internet surfing and emailing cannot be overemphasized.
Based on the foregoing, Mr. Enock brings to Nijen this specialized wealth of knowledge and experience. He positions Nijen as translation agency unparalleled in Tanzania and the East African in the English-Swahili and Swahili-English translation. His presence at Nijen has revolutionalised and shaped its approach to translation, work ethics and efficiency, customer care and technology integration in translation output. He is also a researcher and musician.
Dr. Jaba Tumaini Shadrack
Shadrack is a law lecturer from the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law in Tanzania and one of the directors at Nijen. He is professionally a lawyer, researcher and a translator. He is a language consultant with several entities and projects. He translated several works and projects from George Town University – Department of Economics and the McCourt School of Public Policy. One of such project was under the Initiative on Innovation, Development and Evaluation. Shadrack has worked with FB Attorneys, one of the best three top law firms in Tanzania, as translator since 2017 to date. He has translated three law books and other assignments available at https://fbattorneys.co.tz/qa-boo-vol-q/. Shadrack has also worked with Tanganyika Law Society in the SAJCEA Project. Under this Project, he has translated the Juvenile Court Rules Training Manual: Participants’ Handbook and Facilitators’ Guide, 2016. He has also published learn Swahili Quickly and Easily: The Theory Made Simple, https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Swahili-Quickly-Easily-theory-ebook/dp/B06XYLVGXJ. Equally, he has written and translated another book Learn Swahili Quickly & Easily: Exercises, https://www.amazon.com/Learn-Swahili-Quickly-Easily-Exercises/dp/1973103672. Importantly, Shadrack has his famous blog “Mashairi ya Jaba”, available at http://tanzaniapoetry.blogspot.com/.
Shadrack has translated a lot of literary works in the fields of law, contracts, commercial transactions, users’ manuals and guides, English and Swahili literature, ethics, arts and crafts, public health, advertising, international relations, religion, poetry and linguistics. His accuracy level is 99%. He has been a supervisor of other language translators in terms of proofreading their sentence grammar, spell-checking and structure. Shadrack is also proficient in using CAT (computer-assisted translation) tools such as Adobe Acrobat, Caption Maker, Mac Caption, Google Translator Toolkit, Mate Cat, Microsoft Office Prof, and SDL TRADOS. His competence in Microsoft Word such as Excel, Power Point and Word as well as packages for Social Science (SPSS), internet surfing and emailing cannot be overemphasized. Shadrack brings to Nijen this immense wealth of experience, research, writing and composition highly needed in the translation field.
Dr. Nicksoni Filbert
Filbert is also one of the directors of Nijen. He also lectures at the University of Dar es Salaam School of Law. He is professionally a researcher, law consultant and seasoned translator for over 10 years. Filbert has translated materials in the field of religion, commercial transactions, arbitrations and dispute resolution, contracts, law, public health, user manuals, migration, crimes, literature, technology, and user interface. Some of his published works, including Human Trafficking under International and Tanzanian Law, available at https://www.amazon.com/Trafficking-International-Tanzanian-Criminal-Justice/dp/9462654344 is in the process of being translated into Swahili language. Filbert is famously known for his translation of public discourses, seminar proceedings, and conferences at the national level. He is currently developing a translated version of the book Ministry of Healing into Swahili language due to the book’s impact on public health. His other works, available at https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.47348/SACJ/v33/i3a1, is evidence of his meticulous attention to grammar, sentence structure, spell-checking and linguistic agreement.
Like the rest of the directors, Filbert is also proficient in using CAT (computer-assisted translation) tools such as Adobe Acrobat, Caption Maker, Mac Caption, Google Translator Toolkit, Mate Cat, Microsoft Office, and SDL TRADOS. His competence in Microsoft Word such as Excel, Power Point and Word as well as packages for Social Science (SPSS), internet surfing and emailing cannot be overemphasized. He brings to the firm leadership, regional and global positioning as well as sense of direction and purpose, which are all needed in effective translation which clear and clients’ satisfying deliverables.
