In which country is this knife originally produced?

Okapi has a rich local history dating back over 100 years to Solingen, Germany, otherwise known as the “City of Blades” since it has long been renowned for the manufacturing of fine swords, knives and cultery. In the late eighties, Okapi South Africa purchased the trademark and tooling and began manufacturing the knives in South Africa.

The knife takes its name from the giraffe-like central African okapi.

Okapi knives are mainly used by working-class people due to being very affordable and, while crude in appearance, are robust knives. Use can range from harvesting crops, self-defense, hunting, fishing, or general knife duty. Okapi knives are very popular in Southern Africa, but have a rather nefarious reputation as they are associated with criminals and street gangs. Due to the use of Okapis by criminals they have been nicknamed "the Saturday night special" of knives. In Jamaica, they are both a tool and one of the more favoured of the "ratchet knives" carried by rude boys and are also known as the "3 star ratchet." Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones was known to carry for years a large Okapi lockback he was given in Jamaica.