Akim Oda (or Akyem Oda) is a town in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The town is the thirty-third most populous in Ghana terms of population, with a population of 58,788 people. It is the capital of the Birim Central Municipal district. It lies in hilly country with rain forest vegetation in the Birim River basin.

The climate is semiequatorial and wet with significant precipitation during the rainy season from April to June and again in September to November. A dry period is experienced between December to February.

Cocoa is an important part of the economy, including plantations and casual plantings along roadsides. The crop is dried and stored in warehouses for shipment. There are several small palm oil farms to the north of the Birim river, covering about 6,000 hectares. Byproducts from the palm-oil mills are used in soap-making. Bamboo is another useful and fast-growing crop, a strong and inexpensive material used for furniture and construction. The banks of the Birim river are rich in both gold and diamonds, extracted locally through artisanal processes.

Akim Aliu (born April 24, 1989) is a Nigerian-Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is most famous for an altercation with teammate Steve Downie after his refusal to participate in a hazing incident while playing major junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). Aliu was a second round selection of the Chicago Blackhawks, 56th overall, in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft and has played for several American Hockey League (AHL) and ECHL teams in both the Blackhawks and Atlanta Thrashers/Winnipeg Jets organizations before his trade to the Flames. Aliu made his NHL debut on April 5, 2012.

Aliu was born in Okene, Nigeria, but grew up in Kiev, Ukraine. His father, Tai, is Nigerian and attended university in Kiev on a track and field scholarship where he met and married Aliu's mother, Larissa. He has a brother, Edward. Uncomfortable with the political climate following the demise of the USSR, Aliu's parents moved the family to Canada when he was 7 and settled in the Toronto area. The family initially struggled while Tai studied to become a computer programmer.

Igor Gongalsky (born November 5, 1986) is a Ukrainian professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing with the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League (AHL).

On November 27, 2010, the Portland Pirates of the American Hockey League signed Gongalsky to a professional tryout agreement, and he was resigned by the Pirates on January 23, 2011.