Important figure in wildest Kenya (3,3)

'important' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'figure in wildest kenya' is the wordplay.
'figure' becomes 'm' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'wildest' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen 'wilder' mean this).
'kenya' with letters rearranged gives 'keyan'.
'm' put into 'keyan' is 'KEY MAN'.

Can you help me to learn more?