The ZBS Foundation dramatized the novel for a 1980 radio drama of the same name directed by Thomas Lopez.
Parliament-Funkadelic leader George Clinton has cited Mumbo Jumbo as a primary source of inspiration for his P-Funk mythology.[16]
In Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow, a remark by the narrator places Reed in the heart of postmodern intertextuality, saying: "Well, and keep in mind where those Masonic Mysteries came from in the first place. (Check out Ishmael Reed. He knows more about it than you will ever find here.)"[17]
In 2017, Mumbo Jumbo was reissued as a Penguin Modern Classic.[18]
