Evelyn "Eve" Alice Jane Evans CBE (22 March 1910 – 2005) was a British librarian who founded libraries in Ghana and elsewhere.
She was an advisor to UNESCO and in this capacity she advised the emerging library services in Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Ghana.
[4] While in Ghana she became close friends with Erica Powell[5] who had an unusual role as the President's private secretary and constant companion.
[11] Evans also spent five years in Ghana persuading everyone that they needed a "proper library" system, but that definition was never defined.
He created an approach that he planned would exploit radio to deliver literacy; but he lacked the political backing that Evans enjoyed.
[3] Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah, would give speeches supporting Evans, he opened libraries and he wrote an introduction for her 1964 book.