Complex investments need execution, not more reporting.
Dunamis Strategy Africa is an independent advisory boutique focused on high-value, execution-heavy financial mandates across emerging markets.
Our firm was built around a simple observation:
Investors in these markets receive no shortage of advice and reporting — but when a situation becomes genuinely complex, what they need is someone independent who will take hold of it and drive it to a result.
That is what we do.
Dunamis is built for the demanding end of the investment lifecycle — the mandates that call for independent judgement, hands-on execution, and the standing to act rather than simply recommend.
What sets us apart is where our team has sat. We have not only advised on capital — we have raised it, deployed it, and been accountable for returning it. That principal perspective shapes every mandate: we approach each situation from the position of the investor, not only the adviser.
Resolving a complex position across African and emerging markets depends as much on who you can reach as on what you can structure. Our team has spent decades building relationships across the continent — with investors, development finance institutions, banks, fund managers and regulators — and that network is often the difference between a situation that moves and one that stalls.
We operate from Mauritius — the jurisdiction where so many of the region’s holding structures, funds and security arrangements already sit — and deploy directly into the markets where our clients’ capital is at work.
And we are deliberately a boutique. Clients work with senior practitioners from first meeting to final outcome, not a team assembled once the mandate is won.
An independent view — and the capability to execute on it — free of the vested positions that compromise other advisers. Because we hold no stake in the underlying outcome, every recommendation and every action is driven by what is optimal for the client, not by what serves us.
Working directly alongside clients rather than remaining detached from implementation.
Supporting clients throughout the full investment journey as circumstances evolve over time.
Mariam Rajabally
Mariam brings 20 years of advisory experience from PwC UK and Grant Thornton Mauritius across corporate finance, restructuring, fund raising and financial consulting. Her experience spans a spectrum of industries across a number of geographies. A licensed Insolvency Practitioner with formal appointments, she leads distressed and recovery mandates, from underperforming investments to turnarounds.
She structures emerging market and pan-African transactions from Mauritius, using the jurisdiction as a gateway for inbound investment into the continent. She holds an FCA (ICAEW) with an LLB (LSE), an Oxford PGDip in Financial Strategy and a Harvard’s Senior Executive Program for Africa qualification, She also holds board seats including with regulatory bodies previously.
Ben Mbanga
Ben has over 30 years in finance across African markets, including 21 years at Deloitte Africa as Regional CEO and an Africa Exco member. He was also a Corporate Finance and Consulting Partner, delivering mandates spanning valuations, due diligence, capital raising, M&A, strategy and the recapitalisation and recovery of underperforming businesses.
In 2018 he founded Mangwana Capital, licensed as an investment adviser and asset manager, and raised a private equity fund deployed across agriculture, mining, tourism and energy — experience covering all aspects of fund management through to portfolio monitoring and exit. He is a FCCA (UK) with an MBA (Manchester), LLM (King’s College London) and MCIArb (UK). He holds a number of board seats and chairs the Audit Committee of a large listed entity.
Comprehensive advisory support across every stage of the investment lifecycle, from origination and execution to portfolio management and exit.
Strategic corporate finance solutions that help businesses raise capital, expand operations, and achieve sustainable growth.
Expert guidance to stabilise distressed businesses, preserve value, and navigate restructuring or insolvency with confidence.
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