Namibia: My Music Career Was More Nightmares Than Highlights – Set-Son

It is never easy to leave your country of birth, grow up in a foreign country and return to your country only to be considered a total stranger by some.

That is the life story of Ileni Wahengo, who left Namibia with his mother as a six-year-old, grew up in the refugee camps of Swapo in Angola and Zambia, went to school as a teenager in Cuba and returned to Namibia as a young man.

Popularly known as Set-son, the dread-locked star who is also a member of the dynamic shambo band Mighty Dreads, has…