Editing Mobutu Sese Seko (section)

===Army service===
Mobutu found discipline in army life, as well as a father figure in Sergeant [[Louis Bobozo]]. Mobutu kept up his studies by borrowing European newspapers from the Belgian officers and books from wherever he could find them, reading them on sentry duty and whenever he had a spare moment. His favorites were the writings of French president [[Charles de Gaulle]], British prime minister [[Winston Churchill]], and Italian Renaissance philosopher [[Niccolò Machiavelli]]. After passing a course in accounting, Mobutu began to dabble professionally in journalism. Still angry after his clashes with the school priests, he did not marry in a church. His contribution to the wedding festivities was a crate of beer, all his army salary could afford.<ref>Wrong, pp. 74–75</ref>