My name is Melody Banda, and I am humbled and honored to share this space with such great minds. I hold dearly a saying I love: “Walk with your kind in order to become your best version.”
Looking back, I realize my writing journey began in primary school, where my compositions would often be read aloud to the class, or my book would quietly circulate among students. At the time, I didn’t fully grasp the significance — I couldn’t see the gift within me. But now I know it was already planted.
I’ve always loved pens, notebooks, and examination pads — collecting them wherever I went. I was the one who carried a pen and notebook to every event, always expectant to receive wisdom, jot down insights, or capture what the Spirit whispered. That hunger for understanding, and even greater hunger to share it, has defined my writing journey.
In 2017, I began writing seriously, and in 2022 I published my first book: Watch Out for Laban – The Chief Breaker of Contracts. The book draws from Jacob’s life story in Genesis 29–31. Though I had read these passages since 1995, in 2021 they came alive in a new, urgent way. I saw my face — and the faces of many others — in Jacob’s struggles.
Jacob’s encounter with his uncle Laban is every worker’s or dreamer’s story: unfair contracts, manipulation, stolen time, and opposition that threatens purpose. Laban, as I explain in the book, is more than an uncle — he represents the enemy who seeks to steal, kill, and destroy destinies. His tactics continue today, choking out visions, burying companies, and vexing the souls of God’s children. My book reveals these hidden principles and calls God’s people to break free, rediscover their purpose, and walk in destiny.
After writing about Jacob, I was compelled to write about Leah. Her story broke me. Leah: The Unloved Wife is a book I often wrote in tears. Her introduction into Scripture is one of comparison and rejection — she is unfavored, manipulated, handed over in the dark, and unloved by her husband. Leah represents many who suffer under wrong foundations, parental manipulation, forced relationships, and cycles of abuse.
Through her, I expose the dangers of unhealthy influence, the pain of seeking love in the wrong places, and the emptiness of being used but not valued. Yet, just like Leah, there is hope. God still writes second chances. Jesus, who turned the Samaritan woman’s shame into a testimony, still redeems broken stories today.
Both books are not just biblical explorations — they are prophetic mirrors into our modern lives. They teach principles that help men and women build healthy, godly, thriving relationships and reclaim their destinies from the grip of “Laban.”
Beyond my own books, I founded Unique Writings Publisher, a publishing house dedicated to helping others bring forth truth through their stories. Because what we know shapes how we live — and our societies desperately need the truth.
I write to set captives free, to provoke potential, and to awaken purpose.
