OKA-AKOKO

also called Oka town, Ondo state, southwestern Nigeria, in the Yoruba Hills, on roads from Owo and Ikare. An agricultural market centre (yams, cassava, corn , rice, palm oil and kernels, okra, and pumpkins) for the local Yoruba people, it is also a collecting point for cocoa, palm produce, tobacco, and cotton. Pop. (1991 est.) 126,400.