Writers can kill. The creative writer plays God by creating people on paper and destroying lives at will with an ordinary pencil or pen or a computer. The power of the written word hit me most through my late uncle, Alexius, who used to be a trader in Onitsha. When I got a job as a journalist in Lagos, my uncle told all his trading mates that once any one of them annoys him, thenceforth he would tell his son in Lagos, that’s me, to write in the newspaper that the...