The African Education of Violaine Idelette Junod

Authors

Keith Snedegar

Keywords

SAHS review, African education, Violaine Idelette Junod, missionary family

Abstract

May 11 of this year would have been the one-hundredth birthday of Violaine Idelette Junod, a remarkable if not well-known member of a celebrated Swiss missionary family. Born and raised in Africa, Violaine was nonetheless imbued with a thoroughly European worldview. To truly confront the realities of modern Africa, Junod would have to experience, through a long career as a social activist and educator, the harsh legacies of colonialism, poverty, and civil unrest across the continent of her birth. This she did with great tenacity and, finally, deep personal insight. The following is a sketch of an African education that filled a lifetime.

Recommended Citation

Snedegar, Keith (2023) "The African Education of Violaine Idelette Junod," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 59: No. 3, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol59/iss3/3