Answer:
To protect their children from Americans.
Explanation:
They did not want their children to be influenced by Americans. They were not sure what Americans practiced and thought about certain topics.
The totalitarian states usually don't allow any opposition parties to exist. If some people try to form a party, they usually end up in prison, are banished from the nation, or even murdered.
The reason why the totalitarian rulers prefer a one party system is in order to have all the power in the country, without having opposition that will constantly go public about the terrors and injustices that are happening. If there are more parties, than the people will start to support them, especially cause rarely who likes to live under a totalitarian ruler, thus the totalitarian ruler will face a situation where he/she will lose its power.
To me, this quote sounds something like civil rights leader Malcolm X would say, or someone from the Black Panther Party. Malcolm X believed in black supremacy and thought that black people should use any method possible to be equal to whites. The Black Panther Party, however, believed that blacks needed to take control and the would do any means possible to achieve this.
The men of Umuofia wanted to go to war with Mbaino because one man of Mbaino killed another from Umuofia, and the men of Umuofia were extremely angry because of this.