Serie A side AS Roma has officially launched their Swahili Twitter account to engage their followers in East, Central and South-Eastern Africa.
The move came after the club congratulated Kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge in Swahili after running a full marathon in under two hours on Saturday.
“We’re delighted to launch AS Roma Swahili on Twitter,” Paul Rogers, Head of Strategy at AS Roma told the club's website.
“After we launched a Pidgin account in March, we’ve been inundated with requests from fans in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and from other Eastern and South-Eastern African countries asking for an official Swahili account.