Many researchers have identified that African oral culture has contributed enormously to the development of African literary discourse in written European languages, but exploring how oral culture can be exploited to review contemporary realities is still inadequate. This paper demonstrates that oral culture in the contemporary African novel written in the English language can be consulted as an excavation site for moral redemption in the present global context that is visibly assaulted by high technological advancement. Using Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and The white man of God by Kenjo Jumbam, this work identifies and explores aspects of African oral culture and illustrates how they can be used as archaeological dig sites to review political, economic and sociocultural concerns in this modern era. Achebe in Things Fall Apart and Jumbam in The white man of God use different aspects of African oral culture as tools to emphasize commitment in their creative endeavours to evaluate the contemporary experience and propose a way forward. Using new historicism and the theory of negritude for the analysis of these texts, the study revealed that African oral culture in the written text is committed to the wellbeing of the African people. It assumes that the written text in the English language taps from the African oral tradition to evaluate African collective morality and carve a path for the future. Through careful reading of how the two writers tactfully put the oral forms into print, the study concluded that the two novelists share the opinion that looking back into African oral communities and their different cultural reservoirs sustained by their oral cultural forms is one of the relevant ways forward into a wider global context. The findings revealed that the boundaries between oral culture and the written text are porous with respect to the African novel and that the authentic destiny of the modern African is in tapping from the past that is sustained by its oral culture. The conclusion here is that oral culture can be revisited to excavate significant knowledge systems that can be used to address contemporary social concerns and for this reason, the two novels are read as excavation sites for moral redemption