Antigua-born Storyteller Baden Prince Junior in Marrakech for Unique Guinness World Record – The Longest Storytelling Session.
The Marrakech International Storytelling Festival has officially broken the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous storytelling session, completing an awe-inspiring 80 hours and 34 minutes of uninterrupted storytelling in the iconic Jemaa El-Fnaa Square.
This monumental achievement featured 103 storytellers from 33 countries who shared tall and small tales from a vast range of diverse cultures, reflecting the festival’s 2025 theme, Bahja (Joy and Healing).
One of the rules from Guinness required that each performance be attended by at least ten people, and as audiences gathered day and night to witness the historic storytelling, we were never in doubt this could be achieved.
Storytellers from across the globe, including our own native son, each played a significant role in the record-breaking event, contributing stories rooted in the rich oral heritage of their countries and beyond.
Each participant underscored the festival’s mission of uniting global storytelling communities while celebrating cultural diversity.
Mike Wood from Hertfordshire, the owner of the World Storytelling Café in central Marrakech and who is one of the key organisers of the festival, said “On behalf of the festival I am honoured to dedicate this world record to our patron, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, may God assist him.
We are delighted with this collective achievement and proud that our storytellers were also able to complete more than two hundred workshops in schools bringing Bhaja, the joyfulness of our festival community, to over five thousand children
Baden added, “Bahja means joy and healing. It (the festival) delivered exactly that and we loved it.”
The attempt was adjudicated by Anouk de Timary from Guinness World Records.
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