Abstract
Though many studies exist of missionaries in rural Africa, few concentrate on mission activity in urban areas. Also, though the role of missionaries as an element in the colonial power-structure has often been emphasised, less stress has been laid on those who, from a specifically Christian point of view, developed critiques of colonial society. R. J. B. Mike Moore, missionary on the Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt from 1933 to 1941, made one of the most penetrating analyses of the Copperbelt society of his time, and his critical views led to his alienation from mine and state
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