Who are the 12 Tribes of Israel
Updated: Sep 22, 2022

The 12 Tribes are Judah, Benjamin, Levi, Simeon, (Ephraim/Manasseh), Reuben, Gad, Asher, Dan, Zebulun, Issachar, Naphtali House of David from the Tribe of
Judah is the Royal Family over all the Tribes
The Location of The Kingdom of Israel is primarily located in Ethiopia and Eritrea and possibly parts of Southern Sudan
The Kingdom split into two: Judah and Israel but they will be reunited soon
Kingdom of Judah (the South Kingdom) Capital is Jerusalem
Judah, Benjamin, Levi, Simeon (Some people of Manasseh,
Reuben and Ephraim joined Judah) 2 chronicles 15:9
Kingdom of Israel (the North Kingdom also called northern tribes) Capital is Samaria
the Leader was Ephraim (The Lost Tribes)
Gad, Asher, Dan, Issachar, Half tribe of Ephraim and Half tribe of Manasseh are sometimes called Tribe of Joseph or just Joseph, Naphtali, and Zebulun
Israelite slaves were taken from different sea ports along the coast of West Africa. Togo, Benin, Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Angola, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon
• The slaves from the transatlantic slave trade primarily came from the Kingdom of Judah their descendants are African Americans, Afro Ecuadorians, Guyanese, Afro Panamanian, and the rest of the Afro/African Diaspora in the North, South, Central America and the Caribbean are from the Kingdom of Judah there are also some in the Africa but most of them are in North, Central, South America and the Caribbean.

The Lost tribes are called lost because they were removed from Israel before the Kingdom of Judah and the king of Assyria took them, and carried them away into Assyria where some of them intermarried with other ethnicities and others migrated to different lands across the world like the Igbo in Nigeria being from the Tribe of Dan and Aboriginal Australians and Seminole Indians from Tribe of Reuben

The Israelites from the Kingdom of Judah migrated to Africa after the Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70, there are still Israelites scattered in different African countries and we can still locate them, in Ethiopia, Mali, Uganda, Kenya, etc. soon we will be reunited.
Article from The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volume 39 (1870)

Credit to http://blaksimba.com/tribe-of-levi/
1794 map by Solomon Boulton (Bolton), World Digital Library https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl. wdl_06782/?r=0.543,0.262,0.35,0.144,0
Some Jews were sent to an area where modern South Sudan, and Ethiopia are today there are still Israelites to this living in Ethiopia, and South Sudan