Modakeke

Modakeke is a town beside Ile-Ife in Osun State, southwestern Nigeria, with a population that Wikipedia gives as about 120,000. It lies in tropical forest about 45 kilometres from Osogbo, the state capital, and 90 kilometres from Ibadan. The town was founded in 1845, during the wars that followed the collapse of the old Oyo Empire, when the Ooni of Ife, Abewela, allocated land outside the walls of Ife to displaced Oyo settlers. The name is said to come from the chirping of storks at the site, and the people are also called the Akoraye, a contraction of a phrase meaning that the storks found ample space. Its rulers hold the title Ogunsuwa. Residents are known as prosperous farmers, and the annual Akoraye Day is celebrated in December.