Bourguiba-Senghor

by Chaker Lajili

Emblematic figures of the anti colonial fight, H Bourguiba and L.S.Senghor dominated, for a long time, by their powerful personalities the life of their people and left their print on the new States which they took over . It is the political paths of these two men which are studied in this work. However to apprehend them, it is advisable to place the two men in comparison with the context in which they appeared, who upheld them, who they represented, but also who they changed by their respective genius, and even those of whom they did not realise the evolution. l is also appropriate to show the dynamics of the two countries, the forces involved, the differences, for then placing the action of these two men in these contexts. The first part aims at taking stock of thirty years of Bourguiba regime. During the first ten years of its presidency, Bourguiba attempts to build a State of the "legal-rational" type conforming to Western modernity standards. But instigates at the same time a pers