Whatever Floats Your Boat: The Transatlantic Voyage of Mansa Muhammad ibn Qu, 1312

Non Traditional Crisis Committee

 

Mansa Musa, the famed ruler of the Mali Empire, once told a story of his predecessor Mansa Muhammad ibn Qu, who attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean with a fleet of 2000 ships. Historians know very little about this voyage, which never returned to Mali. In this nontraditional crisis committee, delegates will represent the members of this fleet in order to explore what really happened to Mansa Muhammad on the high seas. Delegates will be tasked with charting a path across the ocean to an uncertain destination as well as maintaining the day-to-day operations of such a massive fleet. Further, they will have to contend with whatever crosses their path. What, if anything, lies on the other side of the Atlantic? One way or another, this committee will find out.