Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon is a Nigerian-American basketball player who used to go by the name Akeem Olajuwon.
Hakeem was the third of Salim and Abike’s eight children. The two were Yoruba business owners from Lagos’s working class who ran a cement business.
In 1996, he married Dalia Asafi in a marriage that was set up by her family.
Hakeem Olajuwon he bought the old Federal Reserve Bank building in Houston and turned it into a mosque. He owns the building that used to be the city’s World Trade Center. It is near Minute Made Park.