Things Fall Apart

What is the function of Obierika's statement that the white man "has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart"?

What is the function of Obierika's statement that the white man "has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart"? (Chapter 20)

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Institutions like religion, social hierarchy, trade...are changed with the arrival of the white man. It is interesting because Achebe does not think this necessarily a bad thing. The Igbo used many of these institutions to marginalise people.