 Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique, which was then a French colony and is now a French single territorial collectivity.His father, Félix Casimir Fanon, was a descendant of African slaves and indentured Indians, and worked as a customs agent.His mother, Eléanore Médélice, was of Afro-Martinician and white Alsatian descent, and worked as a shopkeeper.