Kangura uses political cartoons and caricatures to provide visual impact and to ensure that its anti-Tutsi sloganeering reaches less fluently literate viewers. Often obscene, these illustrations exploit the theme of Tutsi domination: Tutsi men castrating Hutu, Tutsi women trading sexual favors for international support of their nefarious cause. The cover design for issue #26, appearing in December 1993, poses a riddle: "What arms could we use to destroy the inyenzi for good?" Beside the question is a photo of Gregoire Kayibanda, architect of the Hutu revolution and first president of Rwanda*. On the other side is a machete.

In print, the editorial line is the same: a wake-up call to educate the Hutu about purported Tutsi abuses, to unite them as a people, to mobilize them against the enemy. History will reward us for our efforts. We have just finished the first phase, to prevent the inyenzi from enslaving us; we are now entering the second phase, that is, asking all Hutus to share in the achievements of the revolution." A Hutu people united can vanquish any foe, Kangura insists, knowing that a foe to vanquish can create a Hutu people united. "You understand that when the majority people is divided, the minority becomes the majority... Your unity, your mutual understanding, your solidarity are the certain weapons of your victory." Among a people united there is no dissent, no hostility resulting from the longstanding tradition of regional cronyism among Rwandan leaders, no suspicion that the interests of a president whose 20-room mansion includes a hall exclusively for the display of crystalware and a subsistence farmer with an annual income of $350 US might not be quite united. In the pages of Kangura, unquestioning Hutu solidarity is an essential tactic in the war for survival against the Tutsi—though behind the scenes, between the lines, for the wealthy elite it is an end in itself.

The identification of the Tutsi with the cockroach is metaphorically powerful, conveying a loathsome filthiness magnified by the relentless force of the swarm in which these individually insignificant pests infest a household. "We began by saying that a cockroach cannot give birth to a butterfly. It is true. A cockroach gives birth to another cockroach... The history of Rwanda shows us clearly that a Tutsi stays always exactly the same, that he has never changed. The malice, the evil are just as we knew them in the history of our country. We are not wrong in saying that a cockroach gives birth to another cockroach. Who could tell the difference between the inyenzi who attacked in October 1990 and those of the 1960s. They are all linked... their evilness is the same." Kangura publishes lists of Tutsi who have "infiltrated" public culture, railing against their disproportionate success in monopolizing all the credit available from banks, all the import/export licenses available from the government, all the jobs available. This theft is enabled by "the detestable habit that many Tutsis have adopted of changing their ethnic group… which allows them to pass unnoticed and to take places normally reserved for Hutu in the administration and the schools. If this disease is not treated immediately, it will destroy all the Hutu." Indeed, the journal charges that 85% of Rwandan Tutsis are scurrying about Rwanda unseen in this way. Thus the Tutsi are imagined as a dangerous contamination to be cleansed from the Rwandan household; their filth and creeping infiltration horrify readers into a conviction that they must be destroyed, while their vulnerability gives confidence that they can be destroyed.

Generalized use of the term "Inkotanyi", originally applied only to the actual fighting force of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, portrays all Rwandan Tutsi as soldiers armed against the Hutu and thereby rhetorically transforms a campaign of violence against one’s unarmed civilian neighbors into a legitimate military campaign. One article specifically warns that 85% of Tutsi are RPF collaborators "who are working night and day" to overthrow security in Rwanda. Faced with such a threat the Hutu have no choice but to act in self-defense: "If they [the RPF] commit even the slightest mistake they will perish, and if they make the mistake of attacking again all accomplices will perish in Rwanda." Kangura accuses the Tutsi of waging a terror campaign "which would leave no survivors", of which the RPF is only a single weapon. "The inkotyani will not hesitate to transform their sisters, wives and mothers into pistols" to defeat the susceptible Hutu; nor would they hesitate to enlist European support, like the UN peacekeepers accused in a spring 1994 issue of plotting with the RPF to assassinate the president and take over Rwanda.