It is important to note that most of the features of African traditional education system are prominent in the contemporary educational system. For example, people who studied certain trades or vocations spent a specified period of time and at graduation through a ceremony were given either tools or materials to start their own trades.
A key characteristic of the traditional education was the relegation of the girls to the back ground. This essentially was due to the belief that a woman's place is her husband's house and in the kitchen. Thus most training affordable the girls focused on kitchen training.