Dr. Stephano Lazaro Ayo

Name
Stephano Lazaro Ayo

Academic Rank
Lecturer

Department
History, Political Science and Development Studies

Biography

Biography

Stephano Lazaro Ayo is a lecturer in the Department of History, Political Science and Development Studies of the Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE) of the University of Dar es Salaam. He holds BA (Education) and an MA in History from the University of Dar es Salaam in 2009 and 2017. He has PhD in Historical Sciences from the Department of Ethnology and World Studies of the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Slovakia 2022. Dr. Ayo is an ethnohistorian who studies the sociocultural transformation among the rural Tanzanian communities, environmental histories and peasant economies. He has researched sociocultural transformation among tobacco farmers in Urambo and Taturu seminomadic pastoral communities of Igunga district in the Tabora region, central western Tanzania. He has also researched sociocultural, economic and political attitudes on plastic use and pollution in Dar es Salaam under the Sustainable Plastic Attitudes for Communities and their Environments (SPACES) Project, A Comparative study of the use of plastics in Blantyre, Malawi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is therefore also interested in urban ethnology, colonial, political, social and environmental histories. He has published on ethnology and history in various scholarly journals.

 

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Research Interest

Research Interest
Urban ethnology, colonial, political, social and environmental histories.

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Projects

Projects
  1. Sustainable Plastic Attitudes for Communities and their Environments (SPACES): 2022-2024-Postdoctoral Project

Publications

Publications
  1. Ayo, Stephano L. Tobacco Farming and its Influence on the Socio-Cultural Transformations in Urambo District, Western Tanzania; 1950s – 2010. (Unpublished MA dissertation, University of Dar es Salaam, 2017)
  2. Ayo, Stephano L. How Should I Write a Research Paper? In: Ostium: Internet Journal for Humanities. - ISSN 1339-942X, Vol. 16, no. 3 (2020), p. [1-9].
  3. Ayo, Stephano L. Operation Vijiji vya Ujama and the Collapse of Social Security in Urambo District, Western Tanzania, 1967-1980.In: LOQUERE: Interdisciplinary doctoral conference : Collection of papers (1st ed.): University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, 2020. - ISBN 978-80-572-0067-3, p. 6-20 [CD-ROM].
  1. Ayo, Stephano. L & Hosiana Abraham. Strengthening e-learning in Tanzanian Universities: Covid 19 the awakening call. In: L. G. CHOVA, et al.  ICERI2020 Proceedings: 13th International Conference of Education, Eesearch and Innovation  (1st ed.) - Valencia: IATED, 2020. - ISBN 978-84-09-24232-0. ISSN 2340-1095. DOI DOI 10.21125/iceri.2020, pp. 6966-6972.

  2. Ayo Stephano L. 2020. Inequalities and Conflicts in Modern and Contemporary African History: A Comparative Perspective. DOI 10.2478/eas -2021-0015. In: Ethnologia Actualis: the Journal of Ethnographical Research. - ISSN 1339-7834, Vol. 20, no. 2 (2020), p. 158-162. Book : Inequalities and Conflicts in Modern and Contemporary African History / Jan Zahorik. - London : The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. 

     

  1. Ayo, Stephano L. Child Labour or Child Work? Complexities of Socio-Cultural Life of the Wataturu Community of Igunga, Tanzania. Studia Ethnologica Pragensia. 2022. ISSN: 2336-6699.
  2. Ayo Stephano L. 2021. Failure of Ujamaa in Modernizing Wataturu Community in Igunga from the early 1970s to the Mid-1980s. Ethnologia Actualis Vol. 21, No. 2/2021. p. 127-149. DOI: 10.2478/eas-2022-0007