Springer Insights on Teaching Translation and Interpretation in Africa: The State of Art and Perspectives (New Frontiers in Translation Studies)

This book investigates the methods and strategies of how translation and interpreting are taught in Africa, and it identifies the subject matters studied in several African universities, namely the five corners: north, south, west, east, and central Africa. The book goes through its different chapters to measure the efficiency of those translation and interpretation programs, departments, faculties, and schools via a comparison with the rate of employability of the graduates and their reputation in different local and continental organisms. This book reveals the teaching translation and interpretation in Africa which is still adopting the traditional classical methods or adopting new methodologies in this age of AI and recommends methods to face positively the increasing integration of AI at all life levels including in translation and interpretations to highlight the pros and cons of it and prospect or recommend adaptive measures, methods, strategies, or likely methodologies for better outcomes and performance. This book also presents the mapping of major schools, faculties, institutes, and departments of translation and interpreting in Africa. It can serve as a useful academic guide for academic scholars and professional readers on African instructions of translation and interpreting teaching.