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  Luo - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Luo first settled in central Uganda, but were gradually pushed southwards and eastwards by encroaching Bantu migrants.
Remnants of this are evident in the Jopadhola, Langi and Acholi populations of Uganda, who speak Luolanguages.
Intermarriage was common and the Luo were influenced by the Bantu-speaking tribes they came in contact with.
www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /?t=Luo   (469 words)

  
 AEGiS-NV: Polygamy Spreads Aids, Padhola Told
Henry Obbo, the minister of state for labour, on Saturday turned a priest and delivered sermons to the Jopadhola on marriage.
When the parents of these children die, that big number is left behind as orphans, which would not be the case if the man had only one wife," he said.
Owora urged the Jopadhola to continue with the spirit of unity for the sake of development in Tororo.
www.aegis.com /news/nv/2002/NV021205.html   (437 words)

  
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Jopadhola live in eastern Uganda amidst various Bantu ethnic groups.
This forced the Jopadhola to extend to the south and later on to the east.
Thus, unlike the Biito-Luo who were Bantuized and assimilated in Bunyoro, the Jopadhola were able to maintain themselves as a distinct Luo group amidst the various Bantu and Nilo-Harnitic societies.
www.myuganda.co.ug /about/jopadhola.php   (215 words)

  
 Swamp
Museveni said he had been informed that the people in the area were Jopadhola.
Omoding said the people in Molo [in Finnish, this place name would mean ‘pecker’] and other sub-counties in Tororo district were predominantly Iteso, contrary to claims by the Jopadhola that the land belonged to them.
The President had on Tuesday declined to the demands for a district status by Tororo county after the Iteso and the Jopadhola disagreed over which tribe dominated the county.
oddstop.blogspot.com /2005_03_01_oddstop_archive.html   (1313 words)

  
 Re: [Ugnet] Residents eat rats over disputed sub-counties
Mr John Omoding, 75, and Mr Gerald Omset, claimed they were eating the rats to prove that the disputed county belongs to the Iteso and not the Jopadhola.
The Jopadhola have for long claimed the sub-counties belong to them, saying only Mela and Kwapa belong to the Iteso.
To prove that Molo belongs to the Iteso and that people from the sub-county eat rats, the two men went ahead to eat the rodents in full view of the President.
www.mail-archive.com /ugandanet@kym.net/msg18377.html   (372 words)

  
 World Report 378 -- July/August 2003 #05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Work to translate the New Testament into the language of around 250,000 Jopadhola people in Uganda began as long ago as 1976, but it took until March 2003 to finally launch the finished product.
During the lengthy translation process there were several changes of translation and other personnel, and progress was at times very slow.
The head of the Jopadhola community, the Tieng Adhola, also gave strong support to the launch of the New Testament, calling for each family to own at least one copy.
www.biblesociety.org /wr_378/378_05.htm   (339 words)

  
 The Roots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Ganda chief administering the area, Mika Kisaka had exceeded the instructions of the British Collector and was committing what the Jopadhola people felt were unbearable excesses.
Furthermore, the Jopadhola people were incensed by the arrogance of the Baganda and the perpetual sexual indulgence of the Ganda with the local women.
In June 1905 two incidents which occurred simultaneously in two different parts of Padhola flared into violent revolts which resulted in the death of a number of Baganda agents.(Santhamurthy, T.V. The western region of Uganda too had its share of irritation from Baganda.
www.upcparty.net /historical   (19049 words)

  
 Luo are part of the River-Lake Nilotics and are related to the Nuer and the Dinka in the Sudan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Nilotic group is another extensive family (the Karimojong, the Iteso, the Kumam and the all over East Africa.
They can be divided into Langi); the River-Lake Nilotes (the Acholi, the the Highland-Nilotes and the Plain-Nilotes Alur and the Jopadhola).
In Uganda, the which in Uganda includes: the Nilo-Hamites River-Lake Nilotes can be described as the Luo.
psmortensen.dk /africa/luo.htm   (681 words)

  
 Proposed Federal Legislature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
That is also the reason equality within the multi-ethnic states shall be equally respected.
If Busoga can have the same number of Senators like Karamoja, surely the Bagisu, who would be the dominant ethnic group should likewise have the same equal representation among the Senatorial delegation like the Jopadhola, Banyole, Bagwere, Samia, Sabiny in their proposed State.
Simply put, if equality among states shall be promoted and respected, then equality within States, especially multi-ethnic states needs also be respected.
www.federo.com /Pages/Proposed_Federal_Legislature.htm   (2194 words)

  
 The Monitor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Acholi are part of the Luo-speaking Nilotics peoples who moved into Uganda from southern Sudan between 1400-1800 AD.
Their kin include the Alur of Nebbi district and Jopadhola of Tororo in Uganda and the Luo of Kenya.
Moving in small clans, the Nilotics wandered around Uganda, trying to find pastures for their cattle and goats.
www.monitor.co.ug /specialincludes/agenda/rd04082.php   (1681 words)

  
 New Vision Online : Museveni names Tororo commission
Museveni established the commission on March 16, to ascertain the tribes that dominate Tororo county, before considering giving it a district status.
The Iteso and Jopadhola publicly disagreed before the President on his visit to the area last month, over who dominated the area.
The Jopadhola are opposed to the creation of a district, claiming that they are the indigenous residents of the area.
www.newvision.co.ug /D/8/13/427833   (175 words)

  
 Projects-TORCH
The research focuses on a pre-dominantly rural region in south-eastern Uganda, inhabited by a half million people.
They belong to four different ethnic groups: Banyole, Jopadhola, Teso, and Basamia-Bagwe.
Trade and farming are the main economic activities, with increasing use of food as a cash crop.
www.chdc-muk.com /TORCH_P.htm   (1373 words)

  
 HRW: Just Die Quietly: Domestic Violence and Women’s Vulnerability to HIV in Uganda: IV. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ...
The cases that follow further demonstrate the ways in which polygyny and high risks of HIV infection coincide.
Jane Akinyi, a forty-eight-year-old Jopadhola woman, was the first of three wives.
She told Human Rights Watch that her husband, who was violent to all three wives, died in 1990 of AIDS.
www.hrw.org /reports/2003/uganda0803/5.htm   (13129 words)

  
 out of africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
About the presenter: Othieno Daniel Kiracho writes, "I was born in 1974 in Tororo district, Eastern Uganda not far the republic of Kenya.
I come from a small ethnic group known as Jopadhola.
I am the second born in a family of six, four boys and two girls and the only one who stutters.
www.mnsu.edu /comdis/isad5/papers/africa.html   (2835 words)

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