Rosemary M. Campbell-Stephens examines the impact of ontological racialising and socialising over time of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) school leaders as minorities. At a time when systemic racism globally has been thrust into sharp relief, it argues that the continued systematic racialisation and minoritisation of Black, Asian and other people of the Global Majority is a form of neo-colonialism. It examines how an invitation to address the under-representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) school leaders in London schools became a provocation to reclaim and reframe critical discourses about the role of leadership by people of the Global Majority.