As long as the story of science, technology, and medicine is told with the language of colonialism, it should be written using the methodologies of colonial, anti-colonial, and post-colonial history; as long as the story of science, technology, and medicine is told with the language of management, bureaucracy, and control, it should be written using the methodologies of business and government history; as long as the story of science, technology, and medicine is told with the language of conquest and triumph, it should be written using the methodologies of military history; as long as the story of science, technology, and medicine is told with the language of anti-superstition, it should be written using the methodologies of religious studies; as long as the story of science, technology, and medicine is told with the language of masculinity, and about men, it should be written using feminist methodologies; as long as the story of science, technology, and medicine is told with the language of incontrovertible, universal fact, it should be written using the methodologies of the griots; as long as the story of science, technology, and medicine is told with the language progress, it should be written using the methodology of mythology.