The knife here is an imagery representing Christianity. It is in effect cutting through the things that held the people together which was their practices such as worship of the gods,wars,ancestral sacrifices and all the things they deemed sacred. The people of Ummofia believed they were united in this sense hence anything that caused a division or disunity amongst them was a deadly tool just like a ''knife''.
hey Linda i seriously do not agree with your analysis that the knife represents christianity because to me it represents division in the society.
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