The article reports that Yasmin Thayná, director of Kbela was born in 1993 in a rural area of Baixada Fluminense in Nova Iguaçu, State of Rio de Janeiro, several kilometers from Cais do Valongo. Topics include considered that this port was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2017 for containing the most important architectural material vestige of the landing of around 900,000 enslaved Africans.