We build the digital systems Africa runs on.
Kent Systems Africa designs, builds and integrates secure software, data platforms and digital infrastructure for governments, banks, schools, hospitals and enterprises. We engineer them for African conditions and build them to scale across the continent.
- Public and private sector
- Security by design
- Your team owns what we build
Who we build for
Institutions that serve millions of people can't afford systems that fail, leak data or lock them in. We work with organisations where getting it right matters.
- GovernmentDigital public services, registries, revenue and records systems
- Banking & financeCore integrations, mobile money, reporting and fraud analytics
- EducationSchool and university management, exams, fees and learning platforms
- HealthPatient records, facility systems, supply chains and health data
- EnterpriseERP, operations automation, networks and business intelligence
What we do
We cover the whole system, from the network cable to the dashboard your leadership reads each morning.
Build
Software shaped around how your institution actually works.
Connect
Infrastructure and integration so your systems share one version of the truth.
Understand
Data you can trust, turned into decisions.
Protect
Security, privacy and resilience from the first line of code.
Our products
Sentebook
Money lending software for licensed lenders
Loans, receipts, collections, clients and reports in one place. The interest cap and Uganda's lending rules are checked on every loan, and every payment gets a receipt it can send on WhatsApp.
Website development
Websites that work on every phone
For businesses, schools, NGOs and public bodies. Fast on mobile data, with mobile money payments and WhatsApp buttons, and easy for your own staff to update. Domain, hosting and email included.
Engineered for the places it will run
Systems designed for other continents often break here. We design for African realities from day one.
When the connection drops
Offline-first design keeps clinics, schools and field offices working, then syncs when the network returns.
When power is unreliable
Resilient hosting, backups and recovery plans that assume outages will happen.
Where people actually are
Mobile-first interfaces, USSD and SMS channels, and support for local languages.
How money actually moves
Integration with mobile money, local banks and national payment systems.
Where the data must live
Architectures that respect national data protection law and in-country hosting requirements.
Who runs it after launch
Documentation and training so your own engineers can operate, modify and extend the system.
How a project runs
A clear path from first conversation to a system your team owns.
Understand
We study your processes, users, constraints and existing systems before proposing anything.
Design
Architecture, security model, costs and timeline, agreed with you in writing.
Build
Delivered in stages you can see and test, not one big reveal at the end.
Integrate & launch
Connected to your existing systems, migrated, tested under load and deployed.
Support & hand over
Ongoing support, and training so your people can own and extend it.
Read the founder's statementThe question is no longer what Africa can use. The question is what Africa can build.
Akampulira Kennedy
Founder & Lead Systems Architect
Tell us what you need to build
Share the problem, and we'll come back with how we'd approach it, what it would take and a realistic timeline.