Olawunmi Bayode broke a Guinness World Record by reading aloud for 120-hours

A Nigerian, Olawunmi Bayode is presently endeavoring to soften a Guinness World Record up the "Longest Marathon Reading Aloud" Category.

His perusing is continuous at the You Read Library, Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba where he'll endeavor to set another record in the classification of ''The Longest Reading Marathon" (Read Aloud).

Bayode began the Read Aloud endeavor on Monday February 26, 2017 at 1:30 pm at the Herbert Macaulay Library, Yaba. He is endeavoring to peruse for 120 hours in a row with just 2 hours break at regular intervals. He will read night and day.

The present record is held by Mr. Deepak Sharma Bajagain from Nepal. He read resoundingly for 113hrs 15min between Sept. sixteenth – 24th 2008.


Bayode started a trial session by means of live gushing on Monday 24th Oct at 3pm and finished Friday 28th Nov at 3pm 2017, totaling 96 hours of understanding (he read 10 books).