Strengthening Universities student Activism in the East African Region: In many parts of Africa, University systems are in a crisis; squalid conditions, students strife, and increasing state violence have turned universities into battle grounds. Attempts by governments to control Universities through patronage, surveillance and violence and using other institutional configurations to facilitate this are rife. The lack of activism in universities has bred students that can no longer effectively defend their rights. As a result, Universities are producing low quality graduates, who are docile, apathetic, politically unconscious, and civically incompetent. In pursuit of a solution, Youth Line Forum (YLF) and Innovations for Democratic Engagement and Action (IDEA) are implementing a regional program meant to  promote a strong movement of University scholars across the East African region that can defend their rights, and stand in solidarity with each other and  unified to push back against closing of civic space in East Africa.