A 21-year-old law student has just released her second book of poems.
Antoinette-Rita Okoiye, of Peel Close in Chingford, is set to launch The Blue Ocean – Peace, Power, Prosperity (Volume 1), on October 14.
The event which is taking place at The International Hotel in Marsh Lane, Tower Hamlets, will be attended by the former president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo.
Miss Okoiye who is studying at London school of Economics started writing poetry at the age of six and song lyrics at the age of nine.
Her first book of poems Purple & Blue was released just before her eighteenth birthday in 2008.
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