The Mande Studies Association (MANSA) is an international organisation with an academic or professional interest in the Mande region of West Africa. The organization was founded at the University of Wisconsin in 1986; it operates in both English and French.
MANSA is international and multidisciplinary, with members across the globe and across the academic-intellectual spectrum. It brings together teachers, researchers and students from all disciplines and from all continents, people who are interested in the Mandingos and their neighbors, through work on societies, history, geography, anthropology , archaeology, sociology, linguistics, literature, education, environment, etc…