{"id":278734,"date":"2019-06-12T13:20:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMibmh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xMi9ub3J3ZWdpYW4tZGVzY2VudC1ldGhpb3BpYW4tZHItYXJ2aWQtaG9nZ2FudmlrLXNwZWFrcy1hYm91dC1oaW1zZWxmLWluLWFtaGFyaWMv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:50","slug":"dr-arvid-hogganvik-born-in-debre-tabor-to-norwegian-parents-told-his-life-story-in-amharic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278734","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Arvid Hogganvik, born in Debre Tabor to Norwegian parents, told his life story in Amharic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 June 2019 Borkena posted a video in which Dr. Arvid Hogganvik, a medical doctor of Norwegian descent born in Debre Tabor in 1951 after his parents arrived from Norway in 1949, spoke about his life in fluent Amharic.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-267427\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eth_tradmedicine208291.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dr. Arvid Hogganvik, born in Debre Tabor to Norwegian parents, told his life story in Amharic\" \/>\n<p>He said his father, also a doctor, spent about twenty-six years serving in Debre Tabor in northwestern Ethiopia, and the short feature presented the younger Hogganvik as an Ethiopian-raised physician whose family story sits inside mid-century Nordic medical work in the highlands.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as diaspora and health-culture archive, the Borkena video dates a rare Amharic first-person memoir from a Norwegian-Ethiopian doctor in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/12\/norwegian-descent-ethiopian-dr-arvid-hogganvik-speaks-about-himself-in-amharic\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian descent Ethiopian Dr. Arvid Hogganvik speaks about himself in Amharic&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comDr. Arvid Hogganvik, a Norwegian descent , is a medical doctor born and raised in Ethiopia. He speaks about his story in Amharic. Watch Video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":267427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/eth_tradmedicine208291.jpg?fit=2500%2C1677&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1avI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755142,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278734\/revisions\/755142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}