Salama Capital is a Kigali-based advisory firm led by Angelique K. Kantengwa. Led by a Harvard Kennedy School Mason Fellow with more than 35 years of experience across central banking, financial sector supervision, national social security governance, and development finance, we solve complex capital, governance, and execution challenges across Africa.
Governments, DFIs, and institutional investors face intense pressure to deploy growth capital, but the same bottlenecks keep showing up: unrefined project structuring slows diligence, complex governance friction stalls momentum, and underperforming institutional frameworks leak value.
Founder institutional leadership
Confirmed FDI facilitated*
Combined sector expertise
We bridge the gap between complex regional execution in East Africa and the rigorous expectations of global institutional and DFI investors.
Through the integration of our foundational disciplines, we accelerate institutional readiness, market confidence, and sustainable impact.
Financial modelling, valuation, pitch and data-room preparation, transaction structuring, investor access and fundraising support.
Pragmatic technology enablement, executive AI training, readiness diagnostics, workflow design, and responsible adoption to optimize financial and operational workflows, with technical cybersecurity, safety, and infrastructure delivery provided via partner MicroRisk Labs Ltd.
Gender-smart investment criteria, inclusive pipelines, governance and impact metrics for funds, DFIs and enterprises.
Baselines, mid-term reviews, endlines, data-quality assurance and OECD-DAC-aligned evaluation.
Programme design, financial-sector strategy, institutional reform, SOE restructuring, PPP/blended-finance frameworks, technical assistance and policy execution.
Board effectiveness reviews, risk committees, investment governance, internal controls, and statutory compliance oversight—drawing on Angelique’s executive governance leadership across Bank of Kigali, Rwanda Social Security Board (Social Security Fund), and the National Tender Board.
Salama Capital provides specialized capital advisory, risk governance, and regulatory execution across key economic pillars in Sub-Saharan Africa. Click any sector to view comprehensive capability profiles.
Industrial scale-up, transaction readiness & FDI syndication
We help industrial manufacturing firms across East Africa clear institutional due diligence, optimize capital structures, and attract equity and debt from international DFIs and private growth funds.
Agro-processing, outgrower formalization & catalytic fund deployment
De-risking agriculture value chains through blended finance, structured working capital facilities, and impact-driven outgrower scheme governance.
Climate finance, renewable energy ventures & ESG governance
Connecting renewable energy developers, mini-grid operators, and resource initiatives with global climate funds, green bonds, and DFI concessional capital.
Sovereign policy reform, SOE restructuring & OECD-DAC evaluations
Advising ministries, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and multilateral agencies on financial sector reform, sovereign development fund management, and independent program evaluations.
Central bank supervision, bank restructuring & digital inclusion
Leveraging 35+ years of central banking and bank supervision expertise to advise commercial banks, microfinance institutions, and regulatory authorities.
Angelique Kantengwa is a senior advisory and transaction consultant with more than 35 years of leadership across central banking, financial-sector supervision, and development finance. She is a Harvard Kennedy School MPA graduate, former Senior Director of Financial Stability at the National Bank of Rwanda, and former Managing Director of the Rwanda Social Security Board.
Lina Rutaba is a transaction and strategic-finance adviser with 15 years of experience across Rwanda, France, Canada, and the United States. She leads corporate-finance, capital-structuring, and transaction-advisory work for governments, DFIs, banks, and growth companies. Lina has led more than 20 investment transactions totaling over USD 50M and contributed over USD 30M in FDI to Rwanda.
Strategic advisory and implementation support for large-scale manufacturing initiatives, driving industrial growth and investment readiness across the continent.
Management and oversight of demonstration funds focused on sustainable development and innovative financial instruments for emerging markets.
Leading implementations for the ISHEMA programme, bridging the gap between institutional policy and high-impact community-level execution.
Institutional-grade DCF models, clean corporate governance, and audit-ready data rooms from day one.
Pragmatic, workflow-embedded digital and AI enablement that directly supports operational efficiency and readiness.
Embedded 2X Challenge and gender-smart metrics that attract dedicated DFI and impact capital.
Direct equity partner leadership with 55+ years of combined experience driving deals to close.
Why gender-smart capital deployment generates superior risk-adjusted returns in emerging markets, and how institutional allocators can structure investable pipelines beyond basic 2X criteria.
A practical governance and data roadmap for African commercial banks and DFIs to deploy predictive and generative AI workflows while complying with regional supervisory and cyber standards.
A strategic blueprint for mid-market African enterprises and sovereign sponsors preparing balance sheets, data rooms, and governance frameworks for global institutional investment.
Decades of structural leadership manifest in an unrivaled global relationship matrix.
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