S.S. David is a Nigerian-born British PhD researcher, publisher, and filmmaker whose work sits at the intersection of storytelling, history, and women's empowerment. She has written four books, with The Impossible President her most ambitious. It is a comprehensive political thriller, rooted in extensive research into the history of Nigerian women and in the conviction that African women's stories deserve to be told with boldness, on a grand scale, and with full recognition of their complexity.