The Farmer Who Sang Before Sunrise

Marcus Okafor rose every morning at 4:30 on his small plot outside Enugu, Nigeria, and before his hands ever touched the soil, he sang. Not quietly — full-throated hymns that carried across the red earth and into the still-dark tree line. His neighbors thought it was habit. His wife knew better. "I sing because the ground is not mine," Marcus told a visiting pastor one afternoon, pressing a handful of rich soil between his fingers.…