African job seekers claim that finding opportunities in the African labour market is difficult and that expectations are too high, while companies believe that job seekers are inexperienced and lack the requisite skills. There is frequently a conflict between traditional education, values, knowledge, and skills, and Western education. At the same time, among the elements of traditional education are the soft skills expected today, which are also emphasized in education. Based on qualitative on-site data collection and source analysis, the study reviews the two different education systems and the skills required today in their traditional and modern contexts, and looks for common, compatible points. It examines the values and skill areas before Western education and their emphasis, role, and their implications in later social processes and their possible role today. As a cultural anthropologist, the author collected “soft” data personally in East-African countries, but there is also the so-called “hard” data, the quantitative information with review different sources, studies, book chapters, news articles. The main result is that the bridge between two educational systems with different backgrounds can be the area of soft skills, bringing local traditions, thinking and goals closer to today's world.