Okada (motorcycle taxi)

For the town located in the Ovia North-East Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria, see Okada (Nigeria).

Achaba in Kano, Nigeria

An okada (also achaba, going, inaga[1]) is a motorcycle taxi commonly used in Nigeria and other African countries.[2]

Motorcycle taxis or okadas are also commonly used in some other West African countries,[3] including Togo (oléyia), Benin (zémidjans), Burkina Faso, Liberia (phen-phen), Ghana[4] and Sierra Leone.[5]

  1. ^ "The impact of Inaga ban on students". thenationonlineng.com. The Nation (Lagos), Thursday, 18 June 2009. Retrieved 27 December 2009.
  2. ^ Gold, Michael; Rashbaum, William K.; Slotnik, Daniel E. (15 July 2020). "Dismemberment Killing of Tech C.E.O. 'Looks Like Professional Job'". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 July 2020. Motorcycle taxis, called okada in Nigeria, have long been popular in Lagos and many other African cities as a way to circumvent traffic jams.
  3. ^ Ezeibe, Nzeadibe, Ali, Udeogu, Nwankwo and Ogbodo (2017). "Work on wheels: collective organising of motorcycle taxis in Nigerian cities". International Development Planning Review. 39 (3): 249–273. doi:10.3828/idpr.2017.10.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Annang, Evans (17 September 2020). "NPP govt will never legalize okada in Ghana - Dr. Bawumia". Pulse Ghana. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  5. ^ Mbella Mouelle, Stephanie Laura (2014). Complex Causality between Transportation and Human Security: A Special Focus on the City of Douala, Cameroon (Thesis). ProQuest 1625048725.