The striking double archway of 'Atsiaƒu ƒe agbo nu' (Gateway to the Sea) was commissioned for Folkestone Triennial in 2021 and is named in the Ewe language, spoken mainly in West Africa. Originally sited on Folkestone Harbour Arm, it is designed to provoke reflection on immigration and emigration: a joyous riposte, perhaps, to the architectures of control usually found at borders. In its current location, close to a major pedestrian entrance to Loughborough University's campus, it marks a transition from town to campus. The work draws on Kwami’s interest in vernacular structural, material and decorative forms. It gives sculptural form to many of the ideas explored in his 2011 book Kumasi Realism 1951–2007: An African Modernism, which rejects the dichotomous treatment of African culture as rooted in ‘tradition’ against a (supposedly) Euro-American ‘modernity’.