{"id":202991,"date":"2025-07-22T02:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-my-music-career-was-more-nightmares-than-highlights-set-son\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:46:48","slug":"namibia-my-music-career-was-more-nightmares-than-highlights-set-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-my-music-career-was-more-nightmares-than-highlights-set-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: My Music Career Was More Nightmares Than Highlights &#8211; Set-Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Popularly known as Set-son, the dread-locked star who is also a member of the dynamic shambo band Mighty Dreads, has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507210732.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,12669,8250,6662,4706,724,257,51427,51921,254],"class_list":["post-202991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-career","tag-highlights","tag-music","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nightmares","tag-setson","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}