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The Adhola people also known as Jopadhola or Badama are an ethnic group of Uganda. They live Tororo District in southeastern Uganda and comprise about two percent of the country’s total population. They speak Dhopadhola (a Luo language) which belongs to the Western Nilotic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family. They are primarily pastoralists. Badama is a synonym for Jopadhola used by their Bantu neighbours because Jopadhola occupy an area in Tororo district commonly known as Budama.