Habib Bourguiba
Apart from being Tunisia’s independent leader, Bourguiba is esteemed in the North African country as an intellectual who saw the practicality of taking to arms in the quest for sovereignty.
But Bourguiba was a fierce secularist which meant former colonial power France saw him as a reliable ally.
He became an ambassador for the Françafrique project across the continent, even implying that French culture was a model for Africans.
