About Us

Established in 2021, the Benin Journal of Music and the Arts (BENJMA) is a publication of the Music Programme of the Department of Theatre Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. BENJMA operates an open access policy of internet publication to facilitate easy accessibility and wide readership and also produces complimentary print versions to meet the desire of readers who would want to obtain hard copies as alternative and/or supplementary acquisitions. BENJMA is designed to publish at least one (1) Issue yearly, and to undertake the publication of Special Issues from time to time. BENJMA receives and publishes well-researched scholarly articles in music and the arts, to promote scholarship and support the application of research findings at local and global levels. It provides the forum for discourses on the historical, contemporary, and developing subject matters that would serve as the bases for the formation of future perspectives, the making of impactful predictions, and the galvanisation of developmental ideas.