This Short Training Programme seeks to innovate the PhD trajectory at Ghent University, notably in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, with a strengthened emphasis on ecological sustainability in literary and museal studies from an East-African perspective. A growing amount of PhD students is directly interested in ecological and sustainability themes, while others integrate the theme as a transversal line in their work. Fresh input of scholars from East-Africa working on ecocriticism from the prism of oral literatures as well as  performance and heritage studies will concretize UGent’s transversal theme of sustainability in African literary and museal studies.