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Stephano L. Ayo is a lecturer in the Department of History, Political Science and Development Studies of the Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE) which is the constituent college of the University of Dar es Salaam. He holds an MA in History from the University of Dar es Salaam (2017) and a PhD in Historical Sciences from the department of Ethnology and World Studies of the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius-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 is also interested in colonial and political histories. Currently, Ayo is based in Tanzania conducting post doctoral fieldwork research for the Sustainable Plastic Attitudes to benefit Communities and their Environments (SPACES) Project – A Comparative study of the use of plastics in Blantyre, Malawi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has published on Ethnology and History in various scholarly journals. Recently, he has published an article on “Child labour or child work? Complexities of socio-cultural life of the Wataturu community of Igunga, Tanzania.” This was part of PhD project titled, Modernisation Threats among the Taturu Communities of Central Western Tanzania, from the 1950s to Present.

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Dar es Salaam University College of Education

P.O Box 2329, Dar es Salaam,
TANZANIA.
Email: stephano.ayo@udsm.ac.tz; stephenayo10@gmail.com   
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