Yasin Abu Bakr

Life Abu Bakr was born Lennox Philip in Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in a suburb of Port-of-Spain as the eighth of fifteen children. He graduated from Queen's Royal College, and spent time during his tertiary studies in Toronto, Canada.

Abu Bakr converted to Islam, although there are two conflicting descriptions of how it took place. One story states it occurred in 1969 after an Egyptian preacher visited Trinidad. The other story states it occurred in the early 1970s while still in Canada, and that he returned to Trinidad already converted in 1973. He changed his name shortly after converting.

In the 1970s he lived in Libya as a guest of Muammar Gaddafi. Atiyah Abu Bakr, and Indrani Maharaj-Abu Bakr, an attorney and 15 children: nine daughters and six sons.

His son Fuad later embarked on a political course, eventually becoming the leader of the New National Vision party, a minor political party founded in 1994 in Trinidad and Tobago. He unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the 2020 general elections. Another of his sons, Radanfah, played football professionally.