Margaret Christian Wrong (1887–1948) was a Canadian educator, missionary administrator and Africanist.
The Margaret Wrong Prize for African Literature was established in her memory after her death.
[2][3] From 1926 to 1929 she was based in London, setting up home in Golders Green with the anthropologist Margaret Read,[4] and working as a missions secretary for the British Student Christian Movement.
She travelled extensively in sub-Saharan Africa, and was on her fifth tour when she died suddenly in Gulu, Uganda in 1948.
Those involved in establishing the prize included Seth Irunsewe Kale, Rita Hinden, Lord Hailey, Ida Ward and Margaret Read.