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The oracle does not prevent Umuofia from going to war. Rather, it looks down upon any nation that tries to fight a 'war of blame.' If the war is just, the oracle does not stop it. The oracle encourages peaceful settlement of disputes where possible.
Umuofia does not exist.
We may never understand this, but the impression at this point was he feared for his life or the lives of his neighbors and did not recognize the boy.
The village where Umuofia used to be is no longer there. It has been replaced with modernized society.
The village of Mbaino sent Ikemefuna to Umuofia as a peace offering to avoid war between the two villages. Ikemefuna was given to Umuofia as compensation for the murder of a woman from Umuofia by a man from Mbaino.
Umuofia dispatches an ultimatum to Mbaino to either offer a virgin girl and a young boy to appease the killing of a woman from Umuofia or face war.
Cowrie shells are the currency in Umuofia.
Ogbuefi Ezeudu was the oldest man in Umuofia.
The men of Umuofia choose not to fight back because they feared the overwhelming force of the white men and their weapons, which were seen as supernatural. They also believed that violence would only lead to further destruction and loss. Additionally, they saw the killing of the messenger as an isolated incident and did not want to provoke further retaliation from the colonizers.
The Oracle was called Agbala and spoke to Umuofia and its people only through his priestess, Chielo.
Mbaino greets Okonkwo warmly, and agrees to give him a young boy and a virgin to take back to Umuofia. It offers a boy to Umuofia to sacrifice