Storytelling is much more than an oral storytelling, it is the art of telling stories using techniques inspired by writers and screenwriters to convey a message in an unforgettable way and in relation with the cultural approach of the community. **** The story of the Abayomi dolls: a gift **** 500 years ago, in the distant mother continent of humanity, Africa, there was a community, within it was a family, and within it was Tanisha, a girl with skin as dark as the night sky and eyes as bright as shooting stars. She was with her family preparing dinner like every evening, they had just had a delicious glass of coconut milk. When they began to hear strange noises that felt closer and closer, Tanisha looked at her mother, her mother and father crossed glances without knowing what to say. The noises became closer and closer, screams, blows, calls for help appeared, Tanisha clung to her mother’s body and her mother clung to Tanisha’s body. Her father with the intention of protecting them opened the door and saw hundreds of men with skins as white as the coconut milk they had just drunk. The father with hurried movements confronts one of those men and a red liquid comes out of the father’s body and he vanishes. Tanisha looked at her father’s body, her mother did not know what to do to protect her, and finally, they had to give in, they were chained together with the other women and children of the community, they were heading to the ocean and Tanisha and her mother watched as the body of her father and her entire community disappeared in the distance. Once on the boat, a huge one full of families, Tanisha cried inconsolably, her mother, still in shock, also thought how to comfort her daughter, and the mother began to tear her clothes, patiently unraveling her clothes, tearing them into thin pieces and with them she began to make knots and braids, in each knot and in each braid the mother placed an intention, “that the strength of our grandmothers and ancestors always accompany you”, “that resilience be one of your values”, “that the love of our family never leave you alone”. Tanisha’s mother thus creates a doll and names it Abayomi, which means a gift to me from you. Tanisha receives the doll and feels embraced, embraced by her mother, by her father, by her grandmothers and ancestors. Tanisha is comforted and rests in her mother’s lap. In this way African women bequeath the Abayomi dolls as amulets that embrace their entire diaspora. 105